All Quotes

These fateful decisions may well manifest themselves in growing regional security competition, new arms races, nuclear proliferation, and possibly conflict...

I am also confident that rejecting any nuclear deal that unfreezes Iran's assets and provides for sanctions relief would leave the nuclear issue unresolved.

I think it does, thanks to the joint efforts of Congress and the administration to put the sanctions regime in place.

Now we have reached an agreement that will not only legitimize the Islamic Republic as a threshold nuclear state...

The thing that we are fighting is drug addiction here on the private sector, and there is not a single person sitting in this room who does not know somebody in their immediate family or extended family that has not been affected by legal…

But, let me just say that in my State of West Virginia, drug abuse is the number 1 killer.

I cannot believe the culture that we have today. When I was growing up, you got an aspirin or something and that was it.

I mean, we are just giving it for every reason in the world. I mean, they have problems here, problems there.

I talk to some of these veterans. They cannot transition back in because of their addiction.

But, if we cannot control it in the military--and, if the VA, Medicaid, and Medicare would not be dispensing opiates like M&Ms...

This is a subject I acknowledge is foreign to me.

It would create a plume that would likely stretch for 85 miles into Lake Huron and Lake Michigan in my state.

Simply unacceptable. We need to step that up immediately.

A pipeline break in the Great Lakes would be absolutely catastrophic.

I am still particularly concerned about future spills in the Great Lakes.

My concern is that it locks up nearly a million acres in various land conservation designations including wilderness.

I know that resolving the challenges associated with the management of the O and C lands is something that Senator Wyden is very committed to.

My bill, S. 1691, makes treating our forests the priority it needs to be.