Joe Lieberman

This program is helping disadvantaged students in the District. As such, it is not the whole solution to improving educational opportunity in our Nation's capital, but it should be part of the solution.

I support the bi-partisan reauthorization bill put forth by Senator Lieberman enthusiastically and hope that the Congress will pass it.

I strongly urge Congress to support the Opportunity Scholarship Program as a part of the three-sector initiative and described in the SOAR legislation proposed by Senator Lieberman.

This program is helping disadvantaged students in the District. As such, it is not the whole solution to improving educational opportunity in our Nation's capital, but it should be part of the solution.

I believe that this is money well spent--on all three prongs.

We must ensure that every child has access to a quality education.

I am deeply invested in Federal efforts to improve educational opportunities for all children in our Nation's Capitol.

You have an extraordinary record.

Senator Collins and I have just introduced legislation to attempt to prevent a biological attack because the feeling is growing increasingly here that, of the various forms of weapons of mass destruction attack, it is probably the most…

I am impressed by the writing that you have done on what we all ought to be doing, including at the local level, to prepare to respond to a chemical or biological attack.

I am really grateful that you have accepted this.

Most of the Arab governments are deeply suspicious of the Ahmadinejad government in Iran.

We should seek to keep it. And, we should still believe that diplomacy might yet produce an ultimately peaceful resolution of this dispute without recourse to war.

The Iranian government has been weakened by the national and international furor over its dishonest handling of the elections and the protests that followed.

We will not be well served if we allow the debate in our own country to be reduced to 'negotiation or war' with Iran.

It would be unwise to tie the President's hands in legislation when it is impossible to know how the situation will develop in the coming months.

Should negotiations fail, stronger sanctions, not war, are the next logical step.

My best judgment is that, even if negotiations are held this autumn, they will fail due to the predictably unreasonable and inflexible attitudes of Ahmadinejad and his colleagues.

The Iranian regime was seen for what it really is--a ruthless group of leaders who have used the power of the military and security services to terrorize their own population.

I continue to believe that President Obama was correct to not inject the United States into the middle of the Iranian domestic crisis right after the elections.

They should make a much greater effort to join in the international pressure on Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.

The courageous people of Iran deserve our support.

Now is therefore not the time, in my judgment, for the United States to consider a military approach to this dilemma.

As many Congressional leaders have stated, we must negotiate with Iran from a position of strength.

U.S. policy, in short, should be to increase pressure on the Iranian government at a time when it finds itself an international pariah.