Well, that is a more sensitive and rational response to what I have been getting.

I think the Administration needs to give some additional and careful thought to having a more balanced response to this challenge.

What does that do to litigants who would have to travel great distances at great expense and inconvenience?

You are complicating further a very complicated situation.

This bill should be written from this Committee.

I think there is a growing danger that we are responding to this crisis and challenge in an unbalanced way.

If you suffered the damage and you had to come all the way from Los Angeles to Washington in order to assert your claim, it would be an imposition on you, would it not?

I find that a fantastic assumption, if that is the premise of the system you are setting up.

The interests of a nation when well understood will be found to coincide with their moral duties.

I do want to urge on you confronting the immediate problem of getting adequate resources to carry out our foreign policy.

I cannot overemphasize that to you. Otherwise you are not going to be able to do the job.

I have great respect for Colin Powell and for his long and distinguished service to our country.