Richard Lugar actually said...

"I stressed the importance of making our foreign policy less reactive and promoting management of the State Department."

"The situation in Afghanistan is complex and requires a nuanced approach."

"We need to work with the Afghan Government in order to make sure that those who wish to lay down their arms can in fact do so."

"Well, in the same way that we've taken other diplomatic tacts in the past, this seems to me to be one that would help reset the relationship and be very, very important."