Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"America is the indispensable Nation in the world."

"I applaud that initiative. I think this has been a failure of the U.S. Government as a whole to deal with this very tough problem."

"I want to just go back to last week's first hearing in this series of hearings before I focus on this one and say that I very much appreciated the fact that all of our witnesses in last week's hearing..."

"It is imperative, in our view, that the DNI and the NCTC be successful in their vital missions."