Richard Lugar actually said...

"I pray that by drilling two holes in the bottom of each one of them, extracting the agent, performing what they call bituminization, that is solidifying, and then storing it in secure facilities that ..."

"At what point is the economic thing important? At what point is fear of what is going to happen, in terms of world catastrophe, more important?"

"if we're all going to approach this as a worldwide effort, we somehow will have to get over the nit-picking."

"I would just simply ask, as we've discussed this subject back and forth today, whether we've got accurate measurements or a perception of how bad the situation is."