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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.

This is not a partisan issue in any way: Do you feel that this agreement will keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon or not?

I think that, in the region, what we have done, if this goes through, is we have created a situation where the United States is going to be very reticent, very reticent, to place any additional sanctions in place for fear that they will…

I think Iran has learned from that. And I think that is the reason they are pursuing a nuclear weapon today.

I do think we taught folks a lesson, and that is if you give up nuclear arms, we are more likely to take you on militarily than if you do not.

Why, after 4 years of stonewalling on these issues by Iran, we, for whatever reason, could think that these are going to be resolved by a couple of side agreements and they are going to be resolved by mid-December, my view is that is just…

I think it is really a sign of a bad agreement if the only thing you can argue is we can use a military option in 10-15 years from now.

Look, the military option is still on the table. We are in no worse condition.

The problem is you do not know that a leak--you are getting legitimate language.

I am not satisfied to have an Iranian tell me that that is all that it refers to.

I want to get to your level of confidence. Tell me how you are confident of that.

How can you do that with a contract that every word is important?

I do not know of a fool that would agree to an agreement that they cannot read.

The costs and risks of accepting this bad agreement far outweigh the alternative of going back to the negotiating table.

This is simply a false choice.

We violated every rule of good negotiating practice.