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We have never made any part of a legitimate independent government designated them or made them part of a terrorist organization.

We blundered into Iraq because of flawed intelligence, flawed assumptions, flawed judgments, and ideologically driven motives. We must not repeat these errors with Iran, and the best way to avoid them is to maintain an effective dialogue.

We need to learn from this. It was not the fault of the military.

When you are at war, the highest first priority is to take care of your people.

I make that commitment to this committee.

The four of us have come together in a nonpartisan effort, deeply committed to building support for a global effort to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, to prevent their spread into potentially dangerous hands, and to ultimately to end…

I absolutely support the continuation and the strengthening of our relationship with Israel.

Yes, and I am on the record a number of times saying that.

A strong, agile, safe, secure, effective, nuclear arsenal for the United States is not debatable.

I supported legislation to create a bipartisan commission several years ago to help us--Senator Levin and others supported that.

The United States should seek to achieve such reductions in 10 years and plan to base its arsenal on a dyad of nuclear delivery vehicles.

Bilateral, never unilateral. Nothing was ever suggested on a unilateral basis to take down our arsenal. Negotiated, verifiable.

It did not propose or call for anything. It was, in fact--the word specifically used at the front end of that report was 'illustrative,' proposing nothing, but laying out different scenarios, and possibilities, and schedules.

I have great power. We have awesome power. No nation in the world is even in our league.

I always ask the question, is this going to be worth the sacrifice, because there will be sacrifice.

In the surge case in Iraq, we lost almost 1,200 dead Americans during that surge and thousands of wounded.

Was the policy worthy of the men and women that we were sending into battle and surely to their deaths?

I disagreed with President Obama and his decision to surge in Afghanistan.