"I could not agree with you more about that."
"My experience is that over and over and over again we've seen official secrecy used not for national security purposes but to mislead the public and to frame or more particularly mis-frame an outside ..."
"It suggests to me that there is a significant lack of energy and interest within the intelligence community in truly policing this stuff."
"We have, during my brief tenure on this Committee, over and over again seen alarming, appalling leaks of classified information."
"I recall 8 years ago at this time, when we had a significant surplus in the Federal Government after the Clinton Administration."
"I would hope that that procedure could be quickly abandoned and that the Enforcement Division could be given the direction to fairly but aggressively enforce the law."
"Governor Mabus, you bring an extraordinary range of experience to the task before you. I think the President made a very wise choice."
"the perception caused by civilian casualties is one of the most dangerous things we face in Afghanistan"
"I think it has to be viewed as a critical requirement for us."
"I think we've learned worldwide is that governmental capacity is such a critical element of stability."
"that is a way to lose their faith and lose their support, and that would be strategically decisive against us."
"I can't ever envision a day when I'd say that an operation I'm involved in has enough ISR."
"I think the President has chosen very wisely."
"I consider the threat from lack of governance to be equal to the threat from the Taliban."
"Regardless, I think, of the presence of U.S. forces there, the limiting factor appears to me to be the Afghan forces."
"I think we need to get through these elections, see what the results are, see who we're dealing with, what the government looks like, and move forward accordingly."
"There is a possibility that there could be a serious crisis of legitimacy that will impair the ability of a very dysfunctional government to function at all."
"To be blunt, military forces can buy time, but the success there ultimately will be some type of political accommodation."
