Mark Udall actually said...

"We have vulnerabilities. We have significant new capacities, and these capacities have taken on real importance for our warfighters and our security."

"I think you both know that the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2011 required the President...to provide an economic strategy for Afghanistan."

"I think the United States has pretty consistently, primarily privately but also publicly, encouraged these regimes for years to undertake political and economic reform."

"Our advice and encouragement may hold more weight in this region and other regions of the world, as those leaders and those countries look at the example of Egypt and Tunisia, perhaps others."