I believe this Committee can provide much needed help, and that S. 908 is an important and useful way to move forward.
I greatly appreciate the opportunity to appear before you and your distinguished Committee this morning.
The greatest threat to peace is for Iran to get a nuclear weapons capability.
The first is the possibility of international negotiations over the nuclear issue.
I believe a comprehensive application of economic sanctions on Iran is necessary and could be effective.
I think that President Bush's strategy of two paths... is the correct one, and I think that President Obama is essentially following that sa...
The United States cannot be passive and do nothing given the grave threat a nuclear-armed Iran would pose for the United States, Israel and ...
The United States is now in a stronger position to argue convincingly for a more tough-minded international approach to the Iran nuclear iss...
If this regime were to acquire nuclear weapons, it could spark a dangerous arms race in the Middle East.
It is very good to see the spirit of bipartisanship at the outset.
By supporting the international offer for negotiations, the Obama Administration is building credibility with countries important for any fu...
The President's offer of engagement has also put the regime on the defensive.
U.S. policy, in short, should be to increase pressure on the Iranian government at a time when it finds itself an international pariah.
As many Congressional leaders have stated, we must negotiate with Iran from a position of strength.
Now is therefore not the time, in my judgment, for the United States to consider a military approach to this dilemma.
They should make a much greater effort to join in the international pressure on Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.
I continue to believe that President Obama was correct to not inject the United States into the middle of the Iranian domestic crisis right ...
The only thing that the fanatical regime in Tehran cares more about today than the development of nuclear weapons is the survival of their r...
