Brad Sherman actually said...

"If we can drive down the price of oil and diminish the world's dependence upon the Middle East, we might avoid the next Iraq war and the environmental degradation that that involves."

"So, what we need to do is say not how can we possibly get the most important Presidential advisor on foreign policy to come into this room but how can we write an authorizing bill in this room that be..."

"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..."