Bob Casey

I believe this issue is as important as any we'll face in this Congress.

I think it's further evidence of the chairman's commitment to these issues for so many decades.

Tropical deforestation, stopping it is essential if we're going to stabilize our climate.

Copenhagen is an enormously important framework, but if we get a Copenhagen deal done, in my mind that's the start, that's not the finish.

There are particular industries where there's a real concern about so-called 'carbon leakage.'

I look forward to working with the administration on how the United States can better assist developing countries to adopt low-carbon economic growth strategies and improve agricultural production.

Senator Lugar and I introduced the Global Food Security Act, and it was just moved out of committee yesterday.

I wanted to, first of all, thank each of the witnesses for your testimony, for the perspective that you bring to this issue from long years of experience.

Well, thank you very much, that's very good advice. Thank you.

We can obliterate obesity, too, but we have to have some standards that are ranked right up there with air and water and immunization.

I am here to help these kids and all kids across the United States beat those odds.

I think now we are beginning to realize that CEOs know this now better than they used to, that if we don't work on those issues in the dawn of a child's life, you can't even begin to talk about an educated person or a high-skilled person…

I am a great believer that every child is born with a bright light inside them which represents, of course, their potential.

Guidelines are great if people are adopting them and implementing them.

I have a real concern about guidelines not being enough.

So how do you make that work in the context of a desire for national standards, the desire for a national commitment, with a tradition and the reality, not just a theory, but the reality of local control, local decisionmaking?

I think that any sectarian definition of those who get preference--in other words, saving Iraqi Christians because they're Iraqi Christians--would be a very big mistake.

Well, thank you. And I wanted to--I know we have to conclude, but--wanted to get your sense of how we're doing with regard to resettlement of Iraqi refugees, in general, but, in particular, whether or not we're doing enough to resettle…

How about with regard to what our Government's doing, vis-a-vis Syria? Is there more that we should be doing, in terms of any kind of new strategy or new initiative with regard to Syria?

We cannot rush the return of the refugees, or rush the return of the IDPs, beyond a point where they're not comfortable.

I want to see it in the context of the United States remaining engaged in Iraq, at least for some period, until Iraq achieves stability.

I think that we should think of it, still, as a transition for Iraq, and eventually our diplomatic posture in Iraq may look different.

The Provincial Reconstruction Teams--as our troop presence is diminished and as we drawdown, I'd ask you whether or not you think the PRT's role has to be augmented because of that.

What is our Government doing? ... the need for someone in the White House to be able to coordinate...

Which--well, depending on how you count it--but, this was--this was extraordinary.