"I thought was an insult, frankly, to the Chinese people, including some of the leaders and people who have suffered at our witness table themselves."
"But it is the budget support and military assistance, those two categories of aid that are critical."
"Let's be clear about this aid. We don't want health and education and microenterprise, the kind of small-scale assistance that goes to the people of Rwanda to be stopped."
"I will never forget years ago, in the early days of the war in Yugoslavia, I, along with Congressman Frank Wolf, went to Vukovar and other places in Croatia after it had been devastated."
"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."
"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."
"Thank you, all three, for your extraordinary insights again and testimony..."
"The greater enemy is the Congolese Government in its failures."
"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..."
"We cannot talk about democracy, we cannot be outraged about sexual violence when, in fact, we are not taking the steps to stop this."
"the need for us to be able to acquire mortgages while people were still in their homes, to get ahead of the problem"
"So a good part of the portfolio that we have been suffering with here certainly took place prior to this administration."
"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..."
"There is a clear case to be made, in my mind, that but for FHA in the midst of this housing crisis we would have a far greater crisis on our hands."
"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?"
