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When I first went to the Middle East, I went to 17 countries and I met with the leaders there many, many times, and every time they would criticize American policy, I would ask what do you think our policy should be?

Israel's gains are substantial in terms of degrading Hamas' capability first through the tunnels to have the fighters enter Israel and then secondly, it's capacity to launch missiles to Israel.

I think both sides are calculating their gains and losses and I think fairly soon the time will come when they will coincide in deciding that it's in their interest to end this round of the conflict.

Mr. Gibson, you stepped up to the plate at the most challenging moment in the VA's history.

More of the same isn't going to solve the underlying problems.

We need a business-minded approach to reform the agency.

The business model for producing, delivering and supporting the VA product is fundamentally broken.

I'm looking forward to discussing with him his vision for reforming the VA.

I think this is before all this blew up, that we need VA management as good as most of the clinicians and workers within VA and we don't have it.

How come we don't have the resources to do more on that?

I am okay taking responsibility until I have no teeth to effect what is being done.

We need to make sure that we are looking at the long game.

I think now we know where you both are coming from and hopefully we will be able to work in a bipartisan manner to get this thing done.

It is an American negotiation. It is for the men and women that you serve.

This is not a partisan issue. It is not partisan.

I don't care how big the increase it is within the VA budget, is are we taking care of our veterans?

I want to make sure that the VA is there for them.

I want to know are you taking care of the veterans. The outcome is so critical.