It will defeat the purpose of this hearing if our questions are sidestepped through the use of bureaucratic doublespeak, as that will only try our patience and will waste our limited and valuable time.

Perhaps after more than half a century we might take a page from the Eisenhower era and accept the premise that saying no is the best of a very bad set of strategic alternatives.

Such conflicts are by their nature the most intractable, ruthless, long-lasting, and bloody of any form of warfare.

We should not put American lives at risk to make up for a slip of the tongue about red lines.

We know how this war will begin but no one in the administration can postulate how it will end.

Killing more Syrians won't deter Iranian resolve to confront us.

Are we really willing as a Nation to put the lives of our soldiers at risk to serve a purpose unrelated to our vital National interests?

don't we have a responsibility to coordinate just a little bit better?

I am a southerner and I can't pronounce words like that. I don't know Italian.

It is unconscionable for the Administration, any Administration, to deny U.S. citizens their day in court.

the truth of the matter is we want to be compliant, but we are overwhelmed.