Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"It is really hard to compete with that."

"It can be a managed transition in which the harm from the transition, the upheaval from the transition is dealt with in a responsible way, or it can be an abrupt transition."

"Clearly, there are several dimensions to the political fight that you are caught in the middle of."

"the issue then comes to why haven't we dealt with this issue? What has been the problem?"