Dick Lugar

These situations are not easy sells.

I appreciate the work that our committee has done under Chairman Biden on this issue.

This is a total disaster already, and headed toward worse, on the data that you have shown.

I've become--our farm has become--a member of the Exchange. We are a potential seller of carbon.

This is a very small beginning, but it's an important one.

The Pew Foundation's recent report, that's often cited, listed global warming or climate change as number 20 out of 20 issues that were important to the public now.

Addressing climate change will require extraordinary leadership by the Obama administration.

I would just say, from the practical use on my own farm through, now, three generations, the yields we've been able to obtain, which have been a part of my lifetime, are dramatic.

Kyoto did not do well on the Senate floor when it came.

if we're going to do this job, we can't sit here and wish this problem away.

Well, that would be very helpful, I think, in terms of our success in working together and following through on some of the ideas the envoys may bring back that need action.

If the United States is to remain secure and prosperous, it must seek to shape the diplomatic and economic conditions in the world.

I share the view that it's necessary to shift resources toward diplomatic tools, or so-called 'smart power.'

As a point of personal privilege, I want to mention that, on the Republican side, we'll have a meeting at 11:30 in S-116, as a part of our party rules, to nominate and elect the ranking member of the committee.

Our nation’s security is tied to our ability to engage with the world.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.

the President has promised, nothing less than a bold new era of American diplomacy.

It'll be sliced as soon as it comes over to the Congress, sliced again in the second House and in conference.

I am hopeful that both of our nominees today will be advocates for long-term strategic vision within the State Department and the Obama administration.

Prime Minister Putin's congratulations to President Obama were interesting, in that this was the first point that he took up as to how there might be more communication.

This is why I sort of press this energy coordinator. You don't need an Under Secretary of Energy, but maybe it would be helpful if it finally elevates the fact this is absolutely vital to the success of our alliances, as well as to the…

I echo the chairman's thoughts that it's reassuring that you're on top of the START treaty negotiations, the timeframe, the relationship with Russia.

I look at the issue of food aid around the world, and, candidly, you know--and we have a farm lobby in our State, too, but I look at what we do in that regard, and, in essence, including expensive transport--we ship foods all across the…

I rise to honor my good friend and our distinguished colleague, Joe Biden, who will be ending his remarkable Senate career to assume the office of the Vice President of the United States. It has been my great privilege to serve with Joe…

We think that there is no place in the 21st century for aggression or intimidation of sovereign states.