"I want to ask you to take another look at the Recovery Act because I believe the funding in that act for the fire departments was for construction and renovation of the fire department buildings, not for the purchase of equipment, which the fire grants allow them to do."
"To do so will require not just diplomacy but, I liked your adjective, coercive diplomacy, and probably the most effective thing we can do is to put very strict severe economic sanctions on them or the..."
"There's surprisingly little discussion in Congress today of America's strategic nuclear posture."
"It may be the tipping point."
"I think you spoke with real clarity which is that it's not going to be easy to convince the Iranians to stop the nuclear program."
"But it would also have, in a larger strategic context, a very threatening impact on the existing nuclear nonproliferation through the world and that would be a terrible consequence."
"I appreciate that. I agree totally and that's a real concern."
"There's only one thing more important to the Iranian regime right now than the development of nuclear weapons and it is the survival of the regime."
"The issue, the feeling that we had, members of the panel, thank you so much for your service, that two things were happening."
"nuclear elimination would, ``require a fundamental transformation of the world political order.''"
"Do nuclear weapons still deter? I know that you've thought about that and I invite it."