Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"the fact is he cannot do it himself. Congress has to take action to give the President essentially the same latitude for executive action that President Truman had during his time."

"Thanks again to the witnesses."

"I believe it is an important matter of keeping faith with those currently serving in the Armed Forces that the Secretary of Defense-commissioned review be completed before there is any legislation to ..."

"Let me just say that we base a lot of our decisions, probably too many, on samples about political questions and our standing that are a lot smaller than the number that you had responding here."