"I think we need to be very careful about crossing the line from aspirational to outlandish goals."
"I think that we need to let these negotiations continue and I hope we do."
"My position is, let's let the current committee that is negotiating that finish its work, come to a compromise, keep the government open and let's move onto a lot of other business that the country ne..."
"Compromise can't be a dirty word."
"I think he's making that point as well."
"We need to learn lessons from these releases that we're paying for later."
"there was a real fear, me included in those first 24 hours that there would be, you know, 'ticker tape parades,' and Rose Garden ceremonies, and that this whole effort would get politicized, and that ..."
"I believe we've set a dangerous precedent, and I'd encourage this body to look closely at future efforts toward release and calls to close Guantanamo."
"The decision that was made, these five, was a bad decision."
"we deploy knowing the high likelihood of being captured, and it comes with that understanding that ransoms will not be paid, and there will not be swaps for us."
"Why did the Taliban pick those five? Out of all of the spectrum of folks they could have chosen out of Guantanamo, why did we give them essentially their top five draft picks?"