Chris Dodd

I think every one of us up here would be very excited about some ideas that you can bring to us on how we can help promote and advance that idea.

The President recently signed into law a reform measure that Senator Shelby and I wrote together mandating greater government coordinating in this area.

I think is the greatest reason of our success as a country in many ways, is the fact that we have been a welcoming people.

We always talk about how we are going to reform this process to some degree to make it less agonizing for the people who are willing to serve our country.

I announced my retirement, and they took the gavel away.

In a time when obviously credit is not as available to these smaller businesses, we have all heard from our small business communities in all of our States about the difficulty they are having.

The fact that you are willing to step up and have your lives exposed obviously to the scrutiny of a vetting process is something.

America's policy in Yemen cannot be predicated on military assistance alone, we must be committed to helping lift Yemenis out of crushing poverty, strengthening respect for the rule of law, and bringing about democratic reforms.

If the United States is to succeed in Yemen, we must be ready to address not only the security situation, but also the poverty that fans flames of instability and violence.

Now, there's nothing more pathetic, in my view, than a politician who announces they're only leaving public life to spend more time with their family.

This bill is long overdue and critically important.

We will never do this out of the normal appropriation process.

I often describe this issue as a win-win-win-win-win, and basically what that means is it cuts down traffic congestion.

I talked to my Governor the other today, spoke to the Speaker of the House last night on matters in Connecticut.

But a first priority, obviously, is security of our transit systems.

Our strategic imperatives in Afghanistan and Pakistan--crippling al-Qaeda, safeguarding Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, and combating violent extremism--are of the utmost importance to our national security.

The Pakistan part of this equation is most troubling to me in the short term, because obviously if we don't secure the nuclear arsenals in Pakistan, and you end up with a fundamental change of order, political order in that country, all of…

I have great concern about the prospect of sending more young Americans into Afghanistan, because simply escalating our presence, in my view, won't achieve our objectives.

Whatever differences are about policy questions, I think the unbounded respect we have for the men and women in uniform, who represent our country every single day all over the world, needs to be conveyed as often as we possibly can.

I remain skeptical about the likelihood that this new mission will meet our goals.

And let me underscore the comment made by Chairman Kerry.

If they had scored the Lewis and Clark expedition or the Louisiana Purchase, we would still be 13 colonies running around.

Certainly I believe very strongly the best social program, I have often said, that anyone ever imagined or came up with is a decent-paying job.

Basic research is great, but if we are not creating jobs from that research, we are not getting the bang for the buck

Had Thomas Jefferson had the Congressional Budget Office around, he wouldn't have gone.