Jim Webb

We owe people who have served in the military a lifetime of stewardship in exchange for their decades of service.

How we take care of these people is one of the great litmus tests that people who are serving right now are going to be looking at.

We hope that their system has evolved beyond that by now, but perhaps that does play into these situations.

It's really important to stay on an examination of those realities.

It's not predictable that there's going to be a democratic movement or a democratic result in some of these countries.

I had serious concerns about the Libyan operation and the nature in which the President exercised unilateral authority.

I agree, General Dempsey, with what you said. I don't see a pivot here. I think we've always been there, we've always needed to be there.

I think for the record we ought to point out that what we're looking at here is historically consistent with the end point of sustained ground operations.

We came to that conclusion because we have seen the costs go up from $6 billion to $16 billion or more, and there was not a coherent plan.

There was a lot of concern that the structure itself may not fit the history of this country in the longer term.

I think the legitimacy of those elections in the eyes of the Afghan people is going to have a lot to do with their willingness to support the Afghan Government and therefore not support the Taliban.

I do believe we can sustain a force of 352,000 through 2014.

I think he is not only well prepared, but he is a person we need over there in this very difficult and complex assignment.

Countries around the world do not understand the numbers that are coming out of it.

The entire process for developing these TIP lists is fundamentally flawed.

I was one of those who was very opposed to lifting the trade embargo against Vietnam until the mid-1990s.

I think the results in that so far are pretty mixed.

At this critical moment, it is imperative that our policy toward Burma be forward thinking, providing incentives for further reforms.

The process of reform in Burma is still far from complete, but the positive steps that have been taken should be met with a positive response from our own government.

I actually held a hearing a couple of years ago on the--what I was calling the situational ethics in American foreign policy where we tend to focus on different countries in different ways, depending on power relationships and economic…

It is also important to note that the lifting of sanctions on Burma does not equal the establishment of full trading relations.

The United States sets the standards of transparency of our own business environment.

You can legitimately in any country have someone who has committed acts that are not political acts and still be a political person who is incarcerated.

I do not think that there has been any greater challenge in this area in my adult life than Vietnam.

I would never dismiss what she says from our thinking.