John McCain

Thank you. Mr. Donahoe, you have earned the praise of Senator Coburn for all the work you have done in helping craft this legislation with him and Senator Carper.

The fact that you and Senator Coburn have come together to craft this language with compromise, I think, is a model.

Very important and very controversial, right?

I want to thank you and Senator Coburn for this product which, I think, is a very important one.

Well, my message to my Senate colleagues is that we have seen this movie before. That Americans don't like government but they don't want it shut down. And Congress will get the blame.

He's saying it. Why would he say such a thing unless he's so disrespectful of us that he thinks he can say anything and not be held accountable for it?

Only in a situation where he viewed it as his interest, which means that it would be to his detriment if he didn't agree.

This kind of thing is really all earmarks of an autocratic government led by a person who wants to stay in power for life.

Mr. Putin has taken Russia back to many of the Cold War practices of the then Soviet Union.

How has he strengthened Russia's international stature? By allying Russia with some of the world's most offensive and threatening tyrannies.

President Putin claims his purpose is to restore Russia to greatness at home and among the nations of the world. But by what measure has he restored your greatness?

We join our Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake in support of this important legislation and respectfully ask for your support.

I don't see how you can and have credibility. If someone can explain to me how that's possible, I'd like to hear that discussion, but with the weapons have to go out first.

Would it be a complicated and difficult exercise? Yes, indeed. But as opposed to allowing those chemical weapons to be continued to be used as we know Bashar Assad has done a number of times in the past, just not to the degree that this…

The resolution could take a couple of days. The -- all the problems that you just outlined in that of David Kay are very important.

I'm very, very concerned and very skeptical. I'm concerned that John Kerry has to fly to Geneva to meet with Lavrov about a resolution that is going through the United Nations Security Council.

Makes no sense and it may be indicative that we're going to have a lot of difficulties with this Russian sponsored resolution, and so, no, makes no sense whatsoever.

Somebody like John McCain is probably looking at this and says wait a minute, we had this opportunity to help the rebels, to change the balance of fire to get rid of Assad and now we're stuck negotiating with Assad about letting inspectors…

There is a degree of incoherence that I haven't seen the likes of which before.

It must be examined and I think we could have a very good initial test, Chris, and that would be the immediate dispatch of monitors, international monitors, to these chemical weapon sites, which we know where most of them are, and secure…

It is absolutely inexcusable but these things unfortunately and tragically happen in war, and I noticed that the Syrian National Council and the Free Syrian Army have condemned that kind of behavior, and they out to punish the people who…

Kerry -- Secretary Kerry is more right in all due respect.

This conflict is not confined to Syria. It is a regional conflict now.

I think it certainly indicates a couple of things, one is that Iraq, Americans are very skeptical and I understand that and I'm skeptical, too, because of Iraq. I think that there is a mistrust of the president. I think it's been…

The United States of America, if we are more involved, then I think that we can have a greater influence on their behavior.