Chris Israel Quotations

China has not lived up to its responsibility to effectively enforce intellectual property rights.

U.S. industry says its sales data does not support this claim, and there is no other evidence to show that China has moved forward to purchase and use only legal software.

Unfortunately, there is an overall growth in the number of optical disk plants and their capacity ... the reality is there's overall growth.

We're trying to touch every single industry that's impacted by this. There's a lot of resources, a lot of tools at the disposal of our two governments, but it's really got to be a partnership with industry.

We believe some progress has been made, but that's a very big goal. We have very high expectations that those commitments are met.

We've got to be as global and sophisticated in our approach as the pirates and the counterfeiters are in their approach.

The strategy is to focus on the places where the problems are most pronounced.

There's countries that we all identify as particular areas of concern -- China, Russia -- and I think that will get a good deal of discussion. But I think both of our governments go into this dialogue recognizing this is a global problem and it's got to be a global solution.

The U.S. domestic environment around this issue, particularly with regards to China, is very serious.