I listen to President Karzai talk about us as an occupying force and I see a country sitting on a trillion dollars of mineral deposits.

Now, that may be true, but I don't think there's an American who believes that.

I would really urge someone to sit down with a pad and a pencil and come up with some specific numbers.

I agree with Senator Lugar. If we were to assess and redistribute our worldwide military and diplomatic assets without reference to where they are today, we'd be hard-pressed to say that we should spend $120 billion in Afghanistan and have…

My constituents would disagree with the membership of your organization.

My experience is that the marketplace, if there's dollars and cents involved, always figure it out before the government does.

I don't know how familiar you are with the automobile dismantling business.

The market failure in the system that could produce high-value recycled materials is very much like a chicken-and-egg problem.

I wish you well. The problems here are very, very significant.

I share a lot of the skepticism that's been expressed here this morning.

This is a messy situation that isn't getting any better.

You need to train people to be vigilant and watch out for suspicious activity and a real opportunity to report those to the right people so action can be taken.