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We need to continue to do the right thing, and this regime in Iran is going to continue to do the wrong thing.

I do not want to help these people. Until they change their ways, I have no interest whatsoever in helping these people.

This was a really, really bad deal when it was made. It is a much worse deal today.

To restore our resolve in our Iran policy, I am introducing a bipartisan piece of legislation today, with other committee members, that mandates tough sanctions for ballistic missile activity, terrorism, and other threatening behavior.

One year after the agreement concluded, the Iranian regime remains as serious of a threat to our national security as ever before.

I personally opposed the Iran deal. I did not believe it would ultimately prevent the regime from developing a nuclear weapon and would instead embolden the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, while diminishing our leverage.

I think it is tremendously soft stuff, and we are going to keep getting the exact same thing out of Iran until we toughen up.

Just so you know, the comments by Senator Boxer are not shared equally by members of this committee.

I think that all of that was very much mistaken, both in terms of the rhetoric and the actions.

I would like to believe that the administration has recognized that and is not planning on doing any more toward disengagement in the region.

I think if Congress makes very clear that its support for the agreement is conditional on a robust American commitment to the region.

I supported it. He did not. But he was quite upset during the new START Treaty debate.

We would see as a consequence of any nuclear deal that is not preceded by an Iranian strategic shift.

A particular challenge for U.S. interests in the region is Iran's pursuit of a rudimentary anti-access/area-denial strategy.

It is going to be a matter of political will to stand up against those and block them.

Iran is likely to bolster its ties with Russia and especially with China.

Iran's involvement in conflicts in Syria and Iraq is one element that fuels support for groups like ISIS.

To try to turn this into a partisan issue, which I will just go ahead and say in this hearing that I feel like the administration is trying to do to diminish legitimate concerns that people have, to me, is inappropriate.