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.

We find ourselves as a Nation in the midst of a profound, deeply corrosive crisis that we have largely been ignoring at our peril.

The disintegration of this system day by day, year by year, and the movement toward mass incarceration... is dramatically affecting millions of lives.

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 need a strategy that has clearly articulated endpoints, not simply benchmarks, so we really know where we are going.

I actually offered an amendment yesterday, on the exact point that you just made.

And we require it in other areas. They need to understand us every bit as much as we need to understand them.

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.

Well, a defensive action of some sort emanating from the target has an impact on the people trying to take the target.

I understand that if we were to put embarked military security on ships at certain points that there's a wider group of international associations that would be comfortable with that, but that's not what I'm talking about.

It's not necessarily best practices that we would define if we were looking at this from a different viewpoint in terms of putting armed security people on these ships.