Dick Lugar

I think we have made some progress, and that has to go to your credit to get our trading partners to really start to rely on sound science instead of being governed by fear and politics.

I appreciate, likewise, your bringing labor back and your attempt to work, as you say, in a macro situation.

I hope he can do that.

This is not only an economic situation, but it is a national security situation, as well.

I mean, that is pretty compelling to me, if we just get past basically what is opposition by labor in this country and by some in the environmental community.

With Colombia, you have discussed this extensively, but it would appear, looking at it just from a foreign policy standpoint for a moment as opposed to our domestic politics, that the Uribe government has had extraordinary challenges...

Is it objections in the Congress that you are working with or what problems specifically hit you there?

Thank you, Madam Chairman.

I rise to introduce legislation that will lead to the establishment of the Pakistan-American Enterprise Fund on behalf of myself and Senator Kerry. The Pakistan-American Enterprise Fund bill authorizes the Administration to allocate, from…

we must acknowledge that the voice of Afghans themselves is missing.

We must negotiate, but negotiate from strength, which necessitates the presence of all the Afghan partners at the table.

But are there really alternatives? Didn't we select or support various elements, now including President Karzai, in part because they appeared to be the best alternative?

It's confusing to me how this group can be led to gather at the negotiating table given that we've already said that this process has to be guided by the Afghan Government.

How do we get them to the table?

I rise today to introduce the Defense Trade Treaty Implementation Act of 2010. The purpose of this bill is to provide authority to implement two treaties on defense trade cooperation currently pending before the Senate--one with the United…

We started in Afghanistan because we thought that's where al-Qaeda was, and we wanted to disrupt any further activity that might threaten us in the United States of America.

There has to come a time when it will be appropriate for us to withdraw.

We should know by now that such grand ambitions are beyond our resources and powers.

It is up to the President to define success, and delineate how much time and how many resources should be devoted to achieving it.

This is becoming more and more opaque to the public understanding as it has evolved.

There is no military solution in Afghanistan.

There is a real need for clarity in terms of what actually can be accomplished.

Mr. Chairman, earlier in the hearing you mentioned a page in Politico, today's edition, June 24, 2010, on page 31, which is entitled, 'Russia Transparency Equals Security.'

Its global leverage has increased as it has positioned itself as the leading creditor nation with more than 20 percent of the world's current account balance surplus.

You're hurting yourself by turning inward. When you keep out an idea, an invention, a patent, because you prefer to have it made at home, you hurt yourself.