Given the intransigence and the cheating, why does this lend itself more to being resolved diplomatically than Iraq?

But it is another thing also for them to put their political necks on the line when they have seen a series of, frankly, unilateral and, to them, insensitive steps taken that have worsened the situation and not made it better.

You do not think we have a specific role to play with the Europeans and Arab community?

Historically politics stopped at the water's edge, it ought to.

I choose to vote my concerns, not to overlook them.

It will have to be without my vote for the reasons that I've stated.

I will work, I'll work with the administration, I'll reach out.

I regret to say that while we heard words sort of offering... I didn't see in the testimony an acknowledgment of the need for a fundamental bipartisan change.

Well, this will be the first time this administration left a faith-based analysis lying by the wayside.

Do you believe that we can do a better job than we have been of bridging that gap, of reaching out to moderate Islam?

Is this a good cop/bad cop routine, or is it something more thoughtful than that?