Bob Corker: “I want to thank Senator Cardin for agreeing to have this hearing, and for changing the time.”

The question is, why would you say you're going to pull our troops out and lose control of a third of the country and do the things that caused us to lose all of our leverage and then go to Turkey with hat in hand and ask them to do…

We need to make every dollar of our limited foreign aid resources count by addressing problems where we can have a real impact on people's lives.

This was one of the biggest foreign policy blunders that I can remember, maybe the biggest.

What I do know is that... the CIA director came in and with some analysts and gave the most precise presentation I've ever heard in 12 years.