Joe Lieberman

This extraordinary achievement that began here in the subcommittee, which is to come to a bipartisan agreement on replacing the failed SGR formula, will not make it into reality unless there is an offset.

The only way to save Medicare is to change it, to reform it.

The bottom line here is that this must be done and it can be done.

You don't fix the Medicare problem by making everybody happy, but the main thing you can do is to sustain this incredibly important, humane program for the long term.

I hope that you offset the cost of the solution, the repeal, the reform that you have come up with, because otherwise you are going to increase the national debt.

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What they have adopted is they have said that existing program access rules are not enough.

Thanks again to you and Congressman Sherman for convening this hearing and trying to focus us back on this real threat to our security.

I would rather fight them over there than here.

I think that Syria today is rapidly becoming the most threatening terrorist sanctuary in the world.

Assad is not a good man. He is a bad man. He is a brutal dictator.

We have got to--we can't pivot away from any one region in the world because they all matter to our security and our prosperity.

American people ultimately they don't want us to go recklessly picking fights everywhere around the world.

I think that the administration's pulling back from global leadership more generally has contributed significantly to that view.

Congress can do more, broadcasting can do more but honestly it has to start with the number one American, who is the President.

We have to fight that and come back at it on the ground of Islam.

By our Declaration of Independence we were given a mandate, a responsibility, a kind of destiny to carry that message which was universal human rights and there is no people in the world that don't respond to that.

It requires the discrediting of violent Islamist extremism as an ideology, and let me underscore here the enemy is violent Islamist extremism.

Let me say finally that ultimate success in this struggle depends not simply on the death of particular terrorist leaders or the destruction of particular terrorist groups, important though that is.

But we cannot leave. We did that once. We left the region after the Soviet withdrawal and we paid a major price for that.

I would just urge one more time that on a bipartisan basis you attack these problems and show the rest of the House that bipartisanship can thrive, especially when the critical interests of the United States are at stake.

If we are not helping the moderates, nonextremists in Syria, if we are sitting back now as Iraq becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda...

But, you know, you can overlearn the lessons of the last war. One of them would be to just pull out because the consequences of that would be disastrous for our country and our people.

But the bottom line here is, and General Keane was right earlier when he said this is going to go on for a large part of this century.