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“Some of the outsourcing consulting companies, I don't want to go through all the names, but you know what they are, TaiDai Consulting or Cognizant or others, they've gamed the system and they get a bulk of those H-one B's”

“We need a secure border. The border let, we let in too many people under the Biden administration without having the proper security. I think the Democrats need to acknowledge that, own up to that, and say that we need to make sure that there are there is a se…”

“I think that should have been Vice President Harris's answer of what she would have done differently. And she could have even said, I learned we made a mistake. We didn't have the right approach on, on border security.”

“I certainly think there needs to be a new mayor.”

“One of the things the Democrats need to do is stop listening to the foreign policy blob and the beltway exec, you know, pundits who've got fancy titles and fancy think tanks.”

“You think people who are growing up or in these areas are saying, you know, what I really, really care about is the defense of Taiwan? No, they care about their jobs. They care about access to the American dream.”

“I don't think just being anti-Trump is the way back for the Democratic Party.”

“And then you're rewarded if you do the most outlandish things, because we're in an attention economy, and if you pick a fight, people pay attention. And so if you're kind of sober, you're going to lose support from your own party, your own base.”

“If the tax credits expire on the exchange, people who were paying about 7000 dollars on the exchange would go up to about 21,000 dollars.”

“So, 90% is not anything to do with those who are undocumented.”

“We asked Pat Gelsinger, who was asked to leave in Intel. And I said, is it, was it the permitting reform? And he said, no, it's that the capital expenditures to make Wall Street's numbers were, was very high and there was no, no procurement.”

“I'm for nuclear energy. I'm for smart modular nuclear energy. I'm for looking at how we build nuclear energy. Here in the United States in a safe way, but in one that I agree that our part, my party has been opposed to largely.”

“Or I floated you know, that Bob Iger would be a good person to run next time for mayor of LA.”

“Can a Republican who is a pro-choice and take some of the social issues off the table be competitive? Yeah, I think the Democratic Party would be naive to take that for granted.”

“Lockheed Martin has gotten 1.7 trillion dollars of cost overruns on the F-thirty fives.”

“I am clearly of the belief that we should continue with the strategic ambiguity in one China policy.”

“We are prepared. I mean, we have the enabled superiority in the Pacific. We have our seventh fleet deployed. We have nuclear-powered submarines in the area. We will make sure that China is deterred.”

“Our business leaders have more access into China than our military, political or government leaders.”

“The second one was this political reform proposal where I said, you know, let's have term limits for members of Congress and senators. Let's not have any corporate PAC money or any PAC money, any lobbyist. Let's have term limits for Supreme Court justices. Let…”

“The turnover rate of U.S. Members of Congress was less, as according to The Economist, than certain Aristocratic and monarchies in, in Europe.”

“There are only about 30, 40 actual congressional seats that are contested.”

“We're not going to see the dam break in 24, but I do think we'll see the dam break in the next cycle”

“I mean, I disagreed with him when he was, in my view, demagoguing the Silicon Valley bank issue. I don't think he has, you know, to describe the, ah, January sixth insurrectionists or people who broke into the capital as nonviolent, peaceful protest, which is …”

“Until other people in the Democratic Party can speak to folks in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, about the loss that they have felt in, ah, industry and can connect and have a real vision there, they're not going to be able to win those states.”

“I was the only person in the entire Armed Services Committee, 56 to one, to vote no against the defense budget going to a trillion dollars”

“We are paying 310,000 dollars for an oil pressure switch that NASA's paying 328 dollars for.”

“Raytheon in the Patriot Defense missile is making 40% profits, 50% profits that they admit.”

“Some of the H-one B visa holders are being paid below market wages.”

“One third of the AI talent is in China, according to a lot of the reports.”

“By the way, a lot of these companies that if you just limit H-Bs, they all have overseas a lot of the big companies have overseas headquarters. So they're going to just offshore the jobs instead of bringing the jobs here.”

“By the way, if you want to see food prices come down, that would be one way to do that in terms of giving those folks a path to legalization. If they're here, non-criminal, no criminal record and paid paid their taxes.”

“Why are there so many young black and Latino folks who care about crypto? Because frankly, it's the closest they often they're going to get to a friends and family round in technology that we've got to expand economic opportunities so they have more options.”

“American politics disdains a copycat. You're probably not going to be successful just mimicking him.”

“I supported that ballot initiative that was on the ballot last last election that said, you know, if you if you are committing multiple crimes of smashing into Walgreens, then you're going to be charged that you can't just say, OK, yeah, we can keep smashing i…”

“Most people don't pay for the buses anyway. They're on the buses without paying the ticket.”

“I am totally for a stock trading ban. I've led on that. I don't trade stocks. My wife's money was inherited in trust that I'm no say over, no control over, and it's in a trust.”

“The Democrats need to spend as much time understanding why many Americans voted for Donald Trump as we do criticizing Donald Trump”

“I just don't think that's going to be enough for us to Have pill factories here have the steel factories, aluminum factories to revitalize these areas and to look at what is the investment.”

“My understanding is 60% of the investors already are U.S. Investors.”

“I will work with him and Mike Waltz, I know very well. We were co-chairs of the India caucus together in Congress. I will work with him in a bipartisan way to figure out how do we have this app operational.”

“The same week China announces a one trillion dollar trade surplus. They're building more drones than us, more ships than us, more steel than us”

“When you have a immigrant as a worker, yes, you're increasing the labor supply and the supply, if you increase supply that drives down price or wages, but you're also increasing demand because they're spending a lot of money on things.”

“My view of why we have lost jobs and stagnation has been the offshoring of so much of our industry and the hollowing out of towns and communities”

“Greenland is going to, that's going to, those two senators are going to be democratic senators.”

“You know, let's have term limits for members of Congress and senators. Let's not have any corporate PAC money or any PAC money, any lobbyists, and also ban members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. This was common sense things.”

“There has not been a bipartisan congressional delegation to China since before COVID.”

“The carbon footprint of steel is three times higher in China.”

“Nine out of the 15 top steel companies are in China. We don't have a single one.”