You shouldn't stonewall. When a FOIA request is made, you should comply with it within the deadlines.

I, for one, wholeheartedly agree with their recommendations.

We have seen bills before Congress stopped in their tracks by the power of social media.

If there are not--if we do not push very, very hard for future elections in Egypt, what you are talking about, the possibility of it going badly, it goes much higher.

If we look at the plight of the Coptic Christians, if we look at the plight of those in civil society struggling to bring order out of chaos, you realize that this is going to be a very, very rocky road ahead.

The organizations that we have with us today have been building the infrastructure of democracy for a long time in some very hostile environments.

I just wanted to ask you, what has been the engagement on this issue by the administration?

I think our commitment needs to be to public education.

I believe in choice within the public school system, but we are the land of opportunity because of access to a quality education for every child.

I want to say at the outset, the work that NDI, IRI, and Freedom House is doing in helping democracy...

The explosion in the use of social media has changed communication as we know it.

The first weekend that personally identifiable information was allowed to be collected and disseminated was the weekend that Congresswoman Giffords was shot in Arizona.

I would like to associate my comments with yours. I think that they were outstanding and really place a good frame on the discussion we are going to have today.

The myth that children of minority families cannot learn is, indeed, a myth.

It didn't work in your stimulus package, and I don't think it is going to work again.

You have never started a business, as I understand.

It looks like an accounting gimmick. First, it was an insult to our liberty. Now, it is an insult to our intellect, as well.

For the life of me I don't know why you all had to be called up here in front of us.