Richard Lugar actually said...

"But without a strategic nuclear treaty with Russia and all the consultations and transparency measures that come with it, we will have very little hope of tackling the more acute security problems tha..."

"I suspect that, given what I mentioned, the potential multiple administrations, a stretch here, that perhaps our resolution of ratification ought to include language or other steps that might be usefu..."

"What would be the consequences of failure to ratify the New START Treaty with regard to United States-Russia relations or our broader nonproliferation agenda?"

"the Russians assured the world they were going to meet the deadline of the Chemical Weapons Convention. There's no conceivable possibility."