"Our desire is not to hurt the Rwandan people. Our desire is not to cut them off from essential support for agricultural, education, or health programs."
"That is not what they said, with all due respect. They talked about a failed policy, not that we didn't speak out against M23, so just be clear."
"We cannot talk about democracy, we cannot be outraged about sexual violence when, in fact, we are not taking the steps to stop this."
"A credible, internationally driven peace process that deals with the root causes and includes broader Eastern Congolese civil society won't absolutely guarantee peace, but its absence, however, absolu..."
"The greater enemy is the Congolese Government in its failures."
"Thank you, all three, for your extraordinary insights again and testimony..."
"With these U.N. reports on the government's behavior in the DRC, we must overcome our regret over what happened 18 years ago."
"It seems that guilt over the Clinton administration's colossal failure responding effectively, as they did not, to the genocide in Rwanda, has led to subsequent U.S. administrations being reluctant to..."
"But sometimes the egregious harm is so compelling that a very strong statement needs to be made."
"But it is the budget support and military assistance, those two categories of aid that are critical."
"the need for us to be able to acquire mortgages while people were still in their homes, to get ahead of the problem"
"I have lived in the State of New Jersey my whole life. I have never seen the type of devastation that exists in the State."
"Number two, regardless of the size of the supplemental, we need flexibility in being able to seek the recovery that we all want."
"I feel like I have to be Houdini to accomplish this, so--but we are going to do this."
"Do you have a different view than Moody's data that shows that the FHA's presence in the market prevented housing prices from dropping another 25 percent?"
"So a good part of the portfolio that we have been suffering with here certainly took place prior to this administration."
"And I would simply say that in a time in which the housing market, although we see some indicators moving upward and prices, values moving upward, it is still a very significant challenge."
"Well, Mr. Chairman, let me close, if I may, with your indulgence, because of the nature of this issue, by saying, number one, we await what the supplemental looks like, and we will reserve judgment un..."
