"It seems to me that the Iranians lump the United States and Israel together as far as those two countries' edginess toward the ultimate resolution of the issue."
"the best way to do that would not be the immediate use of force against Iran, but this two-track policy that we've been discussing in this hearing of engagement and negotiations, but backed up by the ..."
"I think that if these talks are successful and they can put a few people on each of those ships, and they took aggressive action in the case of an attack, I would suspect that's going to slow them dow..."
"I understand what you are saying, but of course none of those people have to go out and get elected either."
"I appreciate your comments, but don't we have to give just a little bit of slack to those guys in the fact that they had a real gun to their head at the time they were trying to structure this mammoth..."
"Of course when Bear Stearns failed, things were not bad enough that politically anybody could have gotten away with what you are suggesting."
"Thank you, Madame Chairman. Mr. McCullough, excuse me for not knowing more about the details of this."
"It is vital that we get an Ambassador in Baghdad as soon as possible because there is no substitute for having the President's Envoy, the U.S. Ambassador, in place and on the job."
"I could not stress more urgently to my colleagues the counterproductivity of such a move."
"You know there is a vote. We're going to need to run in a minute."
"We also know that free markets only work when they're free from monopolies and from market manipulation."