Angus King

Our policy has been a--benign neglect is too strong a term, but it's been a kind of--go slow.

I appreciate your testimony, and I appreciate the urgency of this situation, and just want to be sure we understand all the implications when we move forward.

But, it's your position that this Geneva Convention assurance of being a protected person constitutes a solemn promise of the United States to look after these people indefinitely?

They're doing pretty well by stealing our intellectual property, he alleged.

I would hope that that would also--and that--the leadership and decisionmaking on that has to start with the White House, it has to start with the administration, for an all-of-government approach to dealing with this…

If there's a catastrophic attack tonight on the fiscal infrastructure or the financial infrastructure of this country, I do not want to go on cable news in the morning, if there is cable news in the morning, and say, 'The administration…

The idea that we can continue to simply defend and never have an offensive capability, I just think is ignoring this enormous threat, which we all agree.

I think we need to establish what we have--I suspect we do have some significant offensive capability, but part of a--making it a deterrent is that it has to be made--it has to be made public.

But, it's urgent. That's the--and we just simply can't defend ourselves by saying, 'Well, it was complicated and we didn't get to it.'

We're the most wired country on Earth and that makes us the most vulnerable country on Earth.

I just think that this is a promising area with other nation-states.

You cannot defend, defend, defend, defend and never punch back.

We would never build a destroyer without guns.

U.S. political dysfunction they ranked as a higher threat to national security than a nuclear-armed Iran.

I want to thank both of you for coming, because what you're doing is what we have to do.

But, I take it that your union is still a union and still negotiates and still has differences and grievances.

I compliment you. You're the John Hancock of this agreement.

But, when Ronald Reagan was talking about arms control, he wasn't demanding that Russia--or the Soviet Union change its immigration policy or forswear expansionism or adventurism. He said, 'Let's control nuclear weapons.'

The other aspect that makes me uncomfortable are the more immediate effects of empowering a state that should still be a renegade state.

The real question then becomes--is, What is the alternative?

If the Iranians begin to misbehave after the limitations in the current agreement expire, they're misbehaving from an incredibly higher baseline.

I don't see it--how it's possible to argue that the sanctions will be stronger if this deal is rejected.

I'm finding this a very difficult issue.

Before beginning my remarks, I want to express my profound sorrow, sympathy, and condolences to the people of South Carolina and the people of Charleston for the tragedy that occurred last night. To my colleagues, Senators Scott and…

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