Jim Risch

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…

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.

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

I wonder when I see the Pakistani Intelligence Service arresting Pakistanis who provided information that led to our finding bin Laden.

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

I look at this $10 billion a month in a counterinsurgency effort to prop up a government that I believe is corrupt.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

If Mount Jefferson is in, I have no choice but to oppose the bill.

It appears to me that potentially a precedent is being set here that, in terms of our overall foreign policy history, is not a good one.

I think it is important to pin down when the United States is going to use military force, to have the proper checks and balances with the Congress.

I guess, Mr. Chairman, I'm a co-sponsor of 382.

I want to underscore the comments of Senator Barrasso regarding the proposal of wilderness.

I think this particular bill really does meet a need that we have in Idaho for being able to further expand the use of the ski areas to all year round activities.

In order to follow up on this conversation we're having right now about China, can you give us some indication of what China's expenditures in Pakistan--how they compare to ours?

I think Americans are getting tired of it, as far as shoveling money in there, to people who just flat don't like us.

This candidate has been well vetted by the Judiciary Committee, and I think that she has received high marks from virtually everyone I've talked to.

It just doesn't make sense.

Why are we spending our kids' and our grandkids' money to do this in a country that really doesn't like us?