Joseph Lieberman actually said...

"We seek a constructive, obviously a peaceful, relationship with them, but we also have both historic presence in the Asia Pacific region."

"We've been providing security for sea lines of communication that are moving over a trillion dollars of commerce per year."

"If you put on a pair of Russian shoes and look at it from their perspective, their concern is that there's more to this than that, perhaps."

"I appreciate that statement very much, and also the fact that China's growth and assertiveness is not just a concern of ours, parochially, it is very much a concern of most of the rest of the countrie..."