We have to spend a lot more time training people to be good advocates of U.S. business.

The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

Probably some of them don't believe it was a mistake, and for those who do ... people don't often like to admit they're wrong. I'm not even sure I'm right when I say it was a mistake.

If I was to criticize the administration for anything, ... it is the general [opinion people] have in so many places around the world that the United States is so powerful now -- and the only superpower now -- that we can do almost anything we want.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.