People came up to me and said, 'We are afraid. Nothing is going to change for many, many years.'

The Senate, the Presidency, and the U.S. Government at large needs to strike appropriate balance between pursuing American security interests and being true to our own values.

It is time to reexamine our policies and learn from our mistakes.

We do not have elections. We have special operation, always.

Today, the best and the brightest of Russia are pushed into exile.

the problem in Russia has more to do with the ability to speak truth to power once you know that truth.

So, they are certainly not fair elections, but, again, when he gets right down to balloting, if there was more free flow of information...

The more Russia goes there, the better it is for the Russian people.

Americans are truly concerned with the decline of basic fundamental freedoms in Russia.

I would personally call on members of this distinguished panel to provide me the input... on what the prioritized listing of issues we should put in the letter.

I really want to encourage that, because it is extremely important.

It is extremely important, not only to businesses, but, again, any stakeholder, that they are listened to very carefully.

I guess there must be an Office of Ozone Regulation in EPA and they must be sitting around their office going, well, now what do we do?

I have come to realize that as a United States Senator to listen to the businesses coming in.

I have proposed things like a Sunset Committee, whose only mandate would be to reduce--identify and actually eliminate laws that are harmful or no longer useful.

I would tend more toward one in and about 10 out.

I think all of government is well intended. But as we continue to throw more and more government at problems, you do reach that point of diminishing returns.

One of the valuable things that retrospective review could accomplish would be to identify rules that are having consequences other than those that were intended and might be having costs that are much higher than were anticipated.

I certainly look at that $1.8 trillion regulatory burden--I come from a manufacturing background--to understand how harmful it can be.

I have not found in my short time here that the Federal Government is particularly good at measuring the intended results of what they are trying to accomplish.

I love it when people agree on things. And it looks like we're all agreeing on: we need more spectrum.

So, the short answer is: government.

I am finding this hearing quite confusing. I mean, it is true that, on May 23, 2013, President Obama did declare the global war on terror over?

So, really, nobody in the administration really believes the global war on terror is over. I mean, we are still involved in conflict.

But, generally, if you are manufacturing in Texas, even though you might have produced a product in New York, you are probably going to be taxed--well, Texas may be wrong. Let us say Wisconsin.