“We continue on a daily basis very successfully to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships.”
“We did a pause to try to get an agreement with the Iranian people to allow oil to flow without them attacking it.”
“One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think that their enemies should be our enemies.”
“The only reason why the U.S. is conducting strikes is against assets of Iran that are being used to attack global commercial shipping.”
“We cannot afford to leave Tennessee behind.”

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On the recordApril 28, 2010
I really appreciate you bringing that point up, gentleman, because what you're really saying is there are a whole lot of question marks out there. It almost seems like to me, coming from our State of Missouri, it's almost like maybe you fall off your roof and you land on the ground and you know you hit pretty hard--you get to be an old geezer like me--and you kind of pick yourself up and say, I wonder if anything's broken. You start reaching around to see what's the damage. It seems like now people are kind of asking the question, what's the damage going to be? You really hit the nail on the head.
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W. Todd Akin
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The speaker is discussing concerns about uncertainty and potential consequences in a broader context.

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