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Americans who may be going to the largest embassy we've ever had.

Sometimes, when I come back to Washington from Indiana, I feel like an ambassador to a foreign country.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

The U.S. is not constructing a palatial embassy, by far the largest in the world and virtually a separate city within Baghdad, and pouring money into military bases, with the intention of leaving Iraq to Iraqis.

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.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

I think that ISIS is a threat to our embassy, to our consulate, as well as potentially to the American people.

I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.