Lamar Alexander actually said...

"Thank you, Senator Lankford. I have an appointment with the President's nominee for Secretary of Defense."

"I think you have testified that you are doing everything the courts ordered you to do in terms of proceeding towards completing Yucca Mountain, correct?"

"It doesn't make much sense to the guy on the sideline to look at that and say, okay, you want deeper ports and you want to fix locks and you have the money in the bank but you won't spend it."

"I read your op-ed, and those are very appropriate questions, important to our national security, and they cost a lot of money."