Roger Wicker actually said...

"It would be an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars to allow the State Department to spend tens of millions of dollars to tear down a world class research building."

"You don't advocate a diminishment of the resources we are spending with regard to the Middle East or Russia and Europe at this point, do you?"

"The rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region, as the term goes, is in my eyes a commitment to continue the pivotal American military role in the Asia-Pacific theater, which has kept peace and stability th..."

"We have to remember that half the population of the world and half of its economy is in that region..."