Jack Reed actually said...

"Violence and progress coexist in Afghanistan, and sometimes the violence blinds us to the progress."

"I think we met about 40 years ago and in the intervening 40 years he has acquitted himself magnificently as a soldier."

"That transition point is not a withdrawal, but it is a transition to a different mission."

"Rhode Island faces the Nation's third highest unemployment rate at 12.7 percent and a recession that hit earlier than any other State."