"Are you aware of any new information that would lead you to differ with the Navy's previously stated assessment that the risk of Hampton Roads being closed is small?"
"I would like to say that we worked, along with staff on this Committee, to bring a panel today that I think is truly extraordinary in its breadth and in its depth of understanding."
"I have long believed that if we approached the criminal justice system with two principal objectives, that a great deal could be done to restrain it."
"We find ourselves as a Nation in the midst of a profound, deeply corrosive crisis that we have largely been ignoring at our peril."
"It is in the interests of every American, in every community across this land, that we thoroughly examine our entire criminal justice system."
"The national disgrace of our present criminal justice system does not present us with the horrifying immediacy of the 9/11 attacks."
"The disintegration of this system day by day, year by year, and the movement toward mass incarceration... is dramatically affecting millions of lives."
"I actually offered an amendment yesterday, on the exact point that you just made."
"I don't believe it's always necessary that, if the American flag goes down, that we end up staying to rebuild a nation."
"Militarily, we should go, at the right time. I think everyone should know that. Diplomatically, culturally, we should be staying."
"We need a strategy that has clearly articulated endpoints, not simply benchmarks, so we really know where we are going."