Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"We owe it to the public to make sure that only the safest vessels are allowed to cross our seas."

"It is not unlike the development of the highway system being done in the early 1950s when the country had a population of 170 million."

"What do we do about these things in our calculus, when we say, 'Look, we have got to defend the relationship with the country,' to us and the bigger picture, the fact that, in Afghanistan, they behave..."

"All of us are dismayed by what we see in Afghanistan. The brutality that exists there is shocking."