"It is not clear to me that they are always an efficacious tool of foreign policy, but they certainly are a tool available to us."
"Sorry to disappoint some of my friends on the other side of the aisle. I'm here."
"What worries me about, as a student of history, is miscalculation."
"I thank the chair, and I thank the panel for being here."
"It isn't an honest intellectual pursuit to deliberately cherry-pick facts and to deliberately put together a panel of critics of a piece of legislation that is admittedly complex."
"It is really important for an American audience not to conflate Iran with al-Qaeda."
"We have helped create a security force of 800,000 in Iraq. What are we getting for that relationship, that investment?"
"For the past years my constituents have told me we want health insurance reform, but only if it meets certain tests."
"Is it going to be the practice of this chairman to start to actually individually put members' websites into the record?"
"I think it started out with great intentions, but it ballooned."
"I can't name a specific area, but categorically I think there certainly must be."