Richard Lugar actually said...

"Each of you knows that we got briefings here about the so-called pivot of our national defense toward the South China Sea, toward the Pacific."

"This morning the Foreign Relations Committee heard unequivocal testimony from our uniformed military leadership in support of the Law of the Sea Convention."

"THE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES FOR RATIFICATION"

"How, Secretary Panetta, would you begin to describe the military problem here?"