Richard Lugar actually said...

"Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I join you in welcoming our distinguished witnesses."

"we should recognize that our ability to manufacture a predictable outcome of this crisis is extremely limited."

"Have you made any recommendations for legislative reform, amendments that we ought to be offering here as legislators that would be helpful to you?"

"I would like to ask sort of the basic question we perhaps began with and that is the idea that we do have a foreign policy with regard to Syria right now and that is that Assad must go."