We have a $1.2 trillion deficit, actually 1.3 last year, a 38-percent deficit, and it needs to be addressed.

It is, you know, a sort of mindless across-the-board cut in all discretionary spending. So education, transportation, infrastructure, on down the line--it would have a devastating impact.

Secretary Panetta, in particular, has been very forceful on explaining how awful sequestration will be.

The burden, the real burden of this committee, this House, and the Senate, and the President is to get rid of it one way or the other, to make sure that it doesn't happen.

I think where Iran is at right now is that, as you said, Mr. Albright, they would like to be nuclear-weapons-capable because of the credibility it gives them.

The difficulty, of course, is that the military option is costly and risky, and there is not even a guarantee that it would necessarily stop Iran from developing the nuclear weapon.

It is our policy to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon and to put all options on the table, including the option of military action if that is necessary.

I think the President needs quite a bit of leeway on this, but with extensive oversight by Congress.

I think, frankly, looking back, it was a mistake for Congress to give the authorization to President Bush about the Iraq war so early in the debate.

It should not be politicized in any way, and it should be something that we do in a bipartisan way.

This case qualifies as kidnapping.