Dick Lugar

I admire your leadership and we will support what you want to do here.

What can we look at in Congress to follow in all of our committees...

I want to see a situation where we're not interviewing the bank presidents while Treasury is off somewhere else.

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I join you in welcoming Secretary Geithner and thank him for appearing before the Foreign Relations Committee.

I would just underline the importance of this in a recent visit I paid to Warren Township's school...

Let me just follow up on Senator Harkin's thinking.

I appreciate that pledge very much.

Could some say that, 'By and large, you just can't count on us.'

I will yield back whatever time that I have.

I'm curious about your thoughts on the problems that governments in Europe have in either making available to their publics word about NATO, news about NATO, reasons for the importance of NATO, because I am under the impression that the…

I encouraged the alliance to make energy security an Article 5 commitment in which any member experiencing a deliberate energy disruption would receive assistance from other alliance members.

For decades, as you pointed out, discussions of NATO frequently have begun with the premise that the alliance is at a crossroads, or even in crisis.

As Senator Lugar has rightly pointed out, the effects on a society of seeing its energy shut off--deliberately, by an outside actor--can be just as devastating as any military attack.

At Thursday's hearing, the question was raised on the level of cooperation offered by the Afghani Government regarding U.S. broadcasting efforts.

We should not say that there is--we should say that we are going to be there for a while.

Unfortunately, my answer to both questions is no.

Reportedly, al-Qaeda no longer has a major presence in Afghanistan, although witnesses in our previous hearings have indicated that its reestablishment would be nearly inevitable if a Taliban government returned to Kabul.

To what extent could we find the Pashtun, who stretch over Afghanistan and Pakistan and are at least at the heart of the matter, useful to our efforts?

the United States and its allies should be more forceful and vocal about sources of finance for extremist groups.

Part of the debate here in the Senate and elsewhere consists of people who say we ought to have something comparable to Iraq, a surge of American forces going after whoever.

The report explains that violent extremists 'are planning to use terrorism--including the possible use of nuclear weapons or devices if they can acquire them--to attack the United States.'

As we debate policy in Afghanistan and the merits of our approach to stability in the region, we take this opportunity to explore the broader issues presented by the continuing terrorist threat emanating from al-Qaeda.

In the case of the United States, there hasn't been an attack in 8 years.

Many Afghans, particularly the Pashtuns, will look at the government as completely corrupt.

American foreign policy is never stronger than when it is bipartisan.