Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"I think absent an assessment of the foreign language needs and the foreign language capabilities, it is difficult to say what impact the Foreign Language Award Program has on the Department's overall ..."

"You are not going to be punished in this room for saying that."

"You made a very important point at the end, which I just want to put an exclamation point next to."

"We believe also that we need to look in a very deliberate way at the tools that are available to us to prevent terrorism here domestically."