Joe Lieberman

I hope people who are listening find it reassuring.

I join Senator Jeff Sessions and others in clamping down, raising the fines, increasing the penalties for people that would try to game the system.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, again I conclude, we are better prepared for a catastrophe than we have ever been.

We have developed extra capacities that FEMA can bring to bear.

I hope that the money we put into collecting these funds back are cost-effective.

But we have to be careful calling some of these mis-classifications fraud when they really are not in my definition of fraud.

The Czechs are really now among our best friends and allies in Europe, and they deserve to have an Ambassador from our country that is confirmed by the full Senate.

For more than 2 years before Ambassador Eisen arrived in Prague, the United States had no Ambassador in the Czech Republic, which spurred doubts and fears among our Czech allies--and as you said, they have really been great allies--about…

It is indeed a profound historical justice, an act of justice, that the Ambassador's residence in Prague, which was originally built by a Jewish family that was forced to flee Prague by the Nazis, and which in turn the Nazis took over as…

The Czech Republic has been an extraordinary partner and ally of the United States, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the promotion of democracy worldwide.

Our relationship with Israel is truly a bipartisan affair and has been for some time.

This is really a superb appointment. I endorse Dan's nomination wholeheartedly.

I hope in time that we will gather the support of Members on both sides of the political aisle and that we will make a statement, an urgent statement, that the Members of the U.S. Senate are ready, across party lines, to take a stand…

I want to commend you, General Petraeus, as well as Secretary Flournoy, for the efforts that are being undertaken right now to make sure that U.S. dollars are not getting in the hands of the wrong people.

We will only stay in Afghanistan after 2014 to the extent we're invited to do so by the Afghan Government

We're on a path now to transition control of security to the ANSF by the end of 2014.

We are succeeding in Afghanistan today.

You can't make decisions about war and peace based on public opinion.

I just think the country owes you a tremendous expression of gratitude.

Now, more than ever, I think it's important for us to follow through on our commitment in Afghanistan, to make sure that Afghanistan does not become a haven for terrorists again.

We introduced a bill this Congress that would expand this protection beyond the transportation sector.

I emerge encouraged that you are certainly dealing with the specific series of vulnerabilities that the WikiLeaks/Manning case revealed.

Longer lasting damage could occur if we allow a culture to re-emerge in which each intelligence entity views itself as a separate enterprise.

We must not let the astonishing lack of management and technical controls...send us back to the days before September 11, 2001.

We must craft security solutions for the 21st Century and beyond.