Kirsten Gillibrand actually said...

"I think not only must that be one of your primary responsibilities, but I appreciate that it is in the forefront of your mind."

"Do we have strategies in place to make sure that if there is a transition that we are very knowledgeable about what military assets are there, what will happen to them?"

"I appreciated your testimony earlier about the nature of al Qaeda, that it has fundamentally metastasized, and in fact, many believe that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is perhaps far more dangerou..."

"I appreciated the fact that the statement was made that a cyber attack could well be a declaration of war."