Jim Risch actually said...

"What kind of popular support is there in the United States for this sort of complex intervention?"

"I wonder. I would like to get each of you briefly to give me your personal opinion on what a post-Assad, post-Alawite Syria looks like..."

"What is happening today, I think, around the world--there is a tremendous amount of focus on Iran and its nuclear program, and that seems to be really dominating the conversation."

"Thank you so much. You guys have been doing all you can to make us elephants extinct, that I thought I should come up."