"Is it correct then that had the Department of State responded to the request from the Ambassador for additional security and requested from DOD additional security, that that would have been provided in Benghazi as well?"
"Had the compound been secured in a timely manner rather than 23 days later, do you think that would have assisted in the effort to track down who committed these acts of terrorist?"
"I'd like to also spend a few moments on the decisionmaking as this crisis unfolded."
"Do you agree with the reports that have suggested that Osama bin Laden was emboldened by what he perceived as the lack of a vigorous response of the United States to prior terrorist attacks and that t..."
"I think there are few, if any, decisions that will have a greater import than this committee's decision confirming or not confirming the Secretary of Defense."
"the perception and the reality"
"That ultimately is why the Washington Post described your foreign policy views as 'near the fringe of the Senate'."
"I continue to believe, as I did when I cosponsored and voted for the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, that any partner for peace must renounce violence, abide by previous agreements, and recogn..."
"I have real concerns about the United States acting as the world's policeman, and I take seriously George Washington's admonition that we beware foreign entanglements."
"his foreign-policy views laid out over 2 decades put him, in the words of the Washington Post, no conservative publication, near the 'fringe of the Senate'."
"the world's bully"