Iran's taking of hostages in exchange for political or financial concessions is by any definition morally and ethically abhorrent and completely outside the scope of international legal norms.

Without additional pressure on the Iranian regime and without a significant step up in the efforts of both the White House and the State Department, Iran will undoubtedly not only continue detaining those held today, but will take even…

So let me be a little bit more blunt.

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 342. ____________________

Thank you so much for enduring almost 3 hours of questioning in such an eloquent way.

So why did you get a bonus then paid to you based on these what I would call abysmal results?

Shouldn't he have some I guess responsibility to come before Congress and help us understand why the record is so deplorable?

How do we fix this problem where I am not coming back here with unbelievable billions of dollars?

The next time I don't want to have 90 percent of the comments coming back negative.

Don't you think Mr. Runcie could have illuminated some of the questions that you have been unable to answer today?

I don't want to make a request that is too difficult, okay? All right. So we are going to do that.

We need to know the matrix for what performance, good performance, excellence performance, and poor performance is going to be for your senior management.