John F. Kerry: “Let us not forget the national-security ramifications of reducing our addiction to foreign oil.”

It's about candor. It's about telling the full story.

Time and again, this administration has tried to leave the American people with the impression that Iraq has well over 100,000 fully trained, fully competent military police and personnel. And that is simply not true.

This is the most important part of this hearing, as far as I am concerned, so I apologize for not being able to listen to each of you.

We need to get back to building this bipartisanship in foreign policy. It is critical.