Dick Lugar

Climate change poses a clear and present danger to the United States of America.

We face a current dependence on oil, a large percentage of which is controlled by hostile or unstable regimes concentrated in the volatile Middle East.

Climate change will force changes in why the United States fights, gives aid, supports governments.

To adequately prepare our military forces for future threats, we need to understand how climate change might be a source of war and, certainly, instability.

Climate change poses a serious threat to America's national security.

there is a need for a lot of infrastructure that never existed to begin with.

What is going to be the evolution of these contracts, and what is your prediction with regard to the petroleum law?

a huge amount of reconstruction of Iraq is going to be required after the war.

Well, its encouraging to know that at least the problem is recognized by the Nigerians, and that they're working with the United States, perhaps with others.

The significance of the Nabucco agreement is far greater than the natural gas it will carry.

Libya has moved on, thank goodness, in 4 years, to where now, I'm pleased to say, the sanctions were lifted.

Energy security is a critical factor affecting nearly all of today's foreign policy challenges.

I want to thank Senator Lugar for his leadership in this arena.

Well, those are very important points.

Nabucco will help diversify gas supplies to many European countries.

Well, that's a very good report, and one that I think the American people would be pleased to know.

Well, thank you. I appreciate your highlighting the Nigerian situation and transparency as a general principle and likewise our involvement as a country, in ways that are diplomatically and economically successful.

But, at the same time, the Congress is also, along with President Obama, taking a look at climate change.

Energy and climate security must ultimately advance hand in hand.

In due course, we may get into some diplomacy because the North Koreans do find it necessary, but our job right now is the Security Council.

I encourage the Obama administration officials to actively consult with Congress as they proceed in developing a comprehensive North Korea strategy.

Of course you want negotiation, but until we really do something as an international community, I don't see much movement in that respect.

I would be in favor really of moving very strongly toward the economic sanction route and bank accounts.

Is it your judgment that if the Security Council resolution that currently is being discussed were, in fact, to be favorably voted upon, that other countries, such as the ones I've mentioned or other European countries, and others who have…

The recent provocative actions by North Korea that you've cited are moving that country toward even greater isolation.