Jim Risch actually said...

"I hope your optimism plays out. But, you know, we wanted--we Americans love elections, and we had an election over there, and it didn't come out exactly the way we wanted it."

"To me, trying to say, 'Well, we don't want any corruption in the country' is kind of like telling the Mafia..."

"I've got to tell you, I was--I have been stunned by the lack of progress in Afghanistan."

"You just don't have the country itself having the willpower, the political willpower, to join us in that."