Dick Lugar

But progress in Iraq remains very vulnerable to political rivalry, outside interference, and the slow pace of economic reconstruction.

We need a careful triage of financial entities to determine which ones can stand on their own, which could become healthy with a reasonable infusion of additional capital, and which are insolvent beyond repair.

Depositors should be protected, but shareholders may have to take their losses.

Is it already the case that many countries, including our own, taking a look at their own problems, in terms of jobs, have become more protectionist?

What are the implications, then, for us in doing that?

a threatened State, according to long-established international law, can take military action as long as the threatened attack is imminent, no other means would deflect it and the action is proportionate.

this is very, very much a foreign policy issue, and the President's budget is, I believe, destabilizing to the global financial system.

I am hopeful that, as this plan is implemented, the U.S. Government will be judicious about sinking taxpayer money into banks and corporations that are insolvent.

Now, we are at war. This is not a parliamentary struggle among Senators who have diverse points of view.

Our budget is not just a domestic issue, it is very much a foreign issue.

We have borrowed about $700 of that $2,650, which leaves us with $1 trillion $950 billion more to borrow in the next 6 months.

Banks that are insolvent should be either liquidated or, in some cases, merged with other banks.

Clearly one of the dilemmas that it presents, in whatever size, is--at least some of our staff have come up with the thought that $3.1 trillion, or 53 percent of United States debt, is now held by foreign investors and foreign governments.

U.S. taxpayer funds should only be used for recapitalization of troubled banks in limited cases, and the terms for government assistance should be uniform and transparent.

It would be unconscionable, I think, to leave this post in its current state of transition during that period of time.

We feel we displaced the dictator, we are trying to bring about democracy, trying to do a number of good things; and to be so resented by the population seems to us to be totally wrong.

Thus we are most grateful that the committee is holding a hearing on opportunities for U.S. leadership in alleviating global hunger.

This is a huge foreign policy dilemma, in addition to being a scientific one.

Well, thank you for that testimony, Doctor.

I thank all four of you for really remarkable testimony. You've been tremendously helpful to our own understanding.

The widely endorsed Global Food Security Act of 2009 (S. 384), known as the Lugar-Casey bill, would authorize significantly larger investments in agricultural education, extension, and research.

this really is a direct way of diplomacy with the most promising group of people who have the most years still to live and to contribute to this.

I applaud the vision and leadership of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations considering your act in today's discussion.

the committee wishes Dr. Borlaug a very happy birthday.

This is a remarkable phenomenon on the ground in Sudan now, as we take a look at Sudan, either from the security standpoint, a humanitarian standpoint...