This committee had a great deal to do with the establishment of the legislation which created the 55 Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.

I would think that primary responsibility for the enforcement of those benchmarks should be primarily with the Secretary of State and her ambassadors.

Extraordinary bravery and courage.

I look back on the days when we were dealing in the Cold War and we always had the feeling that the senior military and the Soviet Union at that time were individuals that would carefully think through all options for initiating certain…

Is under the new plan there to be more State Department officials, more emphasis put on the ambassadorial role to deal with that?

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link.

the report by the Commission on the roles and missions of the National Guard and Reserve finds that the Commander of NORTHCOM 'does not sufficiently advocate for the full range of civil support requirements affecting the National Guard and…

the Department of Homeland Security and other State and local agencies have the primary initial responsibility.

I do not think it is the absolute last chance, but it certainly is the best chance right now that we have.

You are breaking new ground.

how proud some of these foreign officers are to step up and say: I am a product of America's IMET educational system.

There seems to me such a veil of secrecy and withdrawal that it is going to take some forceful initiatives on your part.

I think it's important that we take a look at this thing.

Sixty percent of the known oil reserves--I'm not talking just about Iraq--are in that region.

I would encourage you to retain a healthy level of skepticism about that.

We think we can do somewhat better over the next 10 years and substantially better over the next 20.

The Department is firmly committed to working closely and openly with Congress in order to protect the health of our servicemembers.

We just cannot allow this to happen again.