"It seems like our Federal Government is probably doing more covering up for the Saudis than the Saudis are doing for themselves."
"I always feel a great deal of sympathy for the people that are being ruled by authoritarian regimes."
"I just do not want Congress picking and choosing going, no, this is the business that we are going to rule out investment by x, y, and z company."
"Right. Completely agree, and I look forward to working with you on that."
"The greatest threat we face being $33 trillion in debt is to have the U.S. dollar no longer the world's reserve currency."
"Our government is not being honest. They are not being transparent."
"What can we do about this? Do we pass a law, do we stop buying Saudi oil?"
"I am highly concerned if Congress all of a sudden inserts itself into a process of saying, we are going to identify a U.S. business that we are going to say it so iconic that no foreign government or,..."
"I find the Saudi Arabian human rights abuses abhorrent, as I think we all do."
"I always go to Louis Brandeis, who probably about a century ago said that the solution for mis and disinformation is not censorship, but more free speech."
"If the DOJ and FBI continue to withhold these relevant documents, I hope this Subcommittee will use every authority we have to compel compliance through our legitimate congressional oversight."