John F. Kerry: “One of the things that was quite extraordinary is Congress provided $19 million in increases for enforcement.”

I'm going to vote for you because of the standard I have about the President having intelligent, bright people, if they're honorable--and you're all of those things--he gets to choose who he wants.

I really appreciate the coordinated nonpartisan and bipartisan efforts that we have been making in this Committee

I was deeply troubled by the unwillingness of Dr. Rice, just very candidly and simply to answer the question about torture.

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.