Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"We have heard repeatedly in this room, as well as yesterday with Director Clapper, that the Russians will continue attacking the United States unless they are forced to pay a price."

"Right now, our policy of deterrence is in my view an abject failure."

"I feel like we are in a time warp here because when you were last here, we agreed that we need a policy and a strategy, as the chairman has articulated so well, and we still do not have one."

"Nothing that is changing their behavior, and clearly nothing that will change their behavior in the future because, to quote you or paraphrase you, they have more to gain than to lose by continuing th..."