"I strongly support this nomination. I have been pleased to work with Ambassador Hill regularly over the past couple of years."
"For our purposes, I think we may be looking at the necessity of a more robust Federal response."
"In other words, what we are moving through Pakistan right now. Per container, what's the cost of moving it that way, what's the time, what's the volume that we are able to move over a period of time, ..."
"I think that, as we come further to the border, our role is to then help the Mexican military, who is the principal element of the law enforcement effort."
"I understand the United States is not, but it's been widely reported that other NATO countries are."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"You don't have to say container, but what I'm trying to do is to get something that's measurable, where we can look in a logical way at what these changes are going to do to the resupply pattern in th..."
"I think there are few people in this country who have developed the expertise that he did early on in his career with respect to Russia."
"There is an inherent danger when you centralize intelligence, and we saw that with respect to the lack of divergence of opinions in terms of the run-up to Iraq."
"I've had a long concern about the incrementalism with respect to China."
"When we look at this violence that is going on principally along the border--it's not simply along the border and it's not totally because of what the Mexicans are doing, although I certainly would ex..."