Brad Sherman actually said...

"Last century the high-water mark for the NSC was Kissinger. Everything we complain about now was probably more true then, in terms of the NSC."

"As to this century, I have seen this committee and the House of Representatives in general go from foreign policy makers to foreign policy kibitzers..."

"To tie the President's hands and say that we have to continue these sanctions... makes the bill more unwieldy."

"We should recognize that we often support not territorial integrity but self-determination, and we are often somewhat inconsistent on this."