I think our Government can't just simply leave it up to the private shippers without a recommendation.

It was too painful politically either to force them to cut the procurement quantity or to budget a high funding number.

What we need, I think, is a kind of persistent study of these problems.

If we only buy 187, you're going to take off 24 for a training squadron.

I want to be on record as saying that the soldiers themselves, many of them have fought hard in the western regions of Pakistan.

I need to, as far as this one vote is concerned, to believe that those goals not only are at the top, but have sufficiently permeated the down-below elements of the Pakistani Government and military so that the aid would be effective.

I believe the British Prime Minister spoke about the importance of that in his speech to the Congress this morning about taking a leadership role in getting the G20 group of countries to come together to take on these secrecy laws.

Thank you, Senator Nelson.

What has changed that caused this spike?

These increases are not acceptable! We must improve our suicide prevention efforts to reverse the number of servicemembers taking their own lives.

I thank you for your personal interest in ensuring that these suicides were fully investigated and that measures are taken to prevent additional suicides in the high-stress recruiting field.

Senator Levin and Senator McCain, you both asked me about that and I look forward to going over that with you.

The situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating for several years and is now a serious problem.

the Iraqi Government must still enact important legislation to achieve meaningful and lasting political reconciliation and stability.

I have doubts, however, as to whether Pakistan has the will or the capacity to make significant changes in the near term.

This committee has a special responsibility to the men and women of our Armed Forces to be vigilant on intelligence programs.

Why is there only 12 when you have acknowledged in this statement, this joint statement, that you have helped to hide thousands of accounts from the IRS?

Well, is it your understanding--I mean, this is based on the documents that you folks have signed.

I have made reference to a UBS memo, and it is on a chart which says that, 'In the case where the U.S. person holds his U.S. investments directly, we have been advised by Baker & McKenzie that we cannot recommend products . . . to our…

The last discussion I have heard is a unilateral statement on the part of the President of Switzerland or the head of the banking industry in Switzerland saying that you are going to continue Swiss secrecy.

I do not know why I cannot get direct answers here. Your answers are needlessly evasive, it seems to me.

It is deeply troubling that thousands of the wealthiest among us have actively sought to evade their civic and legal duty to pay taxes.

We are going to do everything we can to take away that ill-begotten gain because that is the way we view it.

You agreed in court that, acting through your bankers and managers, you 'participated in a scheme to defraud the United States of America.'

Maybe you have paid for it, but 40,000 American tax evaders have not.