Dick Lugar

The reason I raise the subject is that I know that our administration is wrestling with appropriate responses that show our support of Israel, but, likewise, indicate that military action would have dramatic and perhaps catastrophic…

But, how, as a practical matter do you propose the settlement issue be resolved?

Prime Minister Blair, press accounts lead us to believe--we will know for certain as distinguished Israeli leaders arrive in Washington in the coming weeks--that they want to talk foremost about Iran and are seeking to resolve that…

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And I join you in welcoming a very special friend, Mr. Tony Blair, to our committee.

about half of our substantial military budget goes, one way or another, to protecting our oil trade

There is not a very distinct image of what anyone does with the $1.5 billion in any particular year.

Many of us believe that one thing that should be done is to take the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and incorporate them into the full political life of Pakistan.

Your bill provides more funds in one bill than the United States has spent in that area since 9/11.

We're not looking for perfection. You're not going to find any in our policies in this part of the world.

We have a democratically elected government, after a decade of military rule which was excessively supported, in my view, by the United States.

Isn't the urgency of this such that a more dramatic push is really in the national interest?

Another military coup, another military takeover, another military intervention would be very much against the interests of the United States, and, above all, the people of Pakistan.

I thought it was a pathetic amount of money, given the importance of this area.

I'm also pleased that Senators Kerry and Lugar have reintroduced and updated legislation to strengthen Pakistan's civilian government.

I believe that the American public and elected officials are becoming much more aware of the severe problems associated with oil dependence, and are more willing to take aggressive action.

Before we throw up our hands and assume that Pakistan is, 'falling apart,' let's recognize that, with a lot of encouragement from their friends, including this committee and other people who were at the lunch last week, you can see the…

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I join you, welcoming President Carter, and, likewise, your very thoughtful comments about his leadership in the Oval Office.

The United States has an intense strategic interest in Pakistan and the surrounding region.

The Pakistani people supported that deal very strongly; something like 74 percent of the population, in a poll taken by the IRI, the International Republican Institute, and published this morning.

The Ball State geothermal project provides a practical, real-world example of how large-scale alternative-energy projects are now economically viable today.

Although the money sounds like a lot, it isn't; it isn't, in my view, as much as the problem needs.

The Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act of 2009 sustains the objectives outlined in the bill I introduced last year with then-Senator Biden.

For the better part of 50 or 60 years, our foreign policy had been deeply entwined with oil, in one form or another.

we're in two shooting wars in the Middle East, in large measure, because of our dependence on imported petroleum

The needs there are enormous, and the history of United States relations with Pakistan has emphasized the wrong kinds of assistance.