Ron Wyden actually said...

"About as good a value as we can get in this country."

"Do not get rid of them. Do not divest them."

"This scourge has been debated for it seems like longer than--a longer running debate than the Trojan War."

"This is a view that I very much share, and what is striking is outside the Senate--outside the Senate--security and economic thinkers, our leading thinkers of both political parties, say this is exact..."