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."

"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..."

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

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