The best player on the team is the one who makes everybody else better.

The budget deficit topped out a couple of years ago at about $1.4 trillion.

I am encouraged that we are seeing these significant drops in the level of improper payments.

We need adequate and sustained funding to carry out these reviews.

Reform our entitlement programs, and to do so in a way that saves money.

We must use every tool available to put our fiscal house in order and to give the American people the government they expect and deserve.

We have to figure out how to keep the deficit on the way back down.

The law aims to make agencies and agency leadership far more accountable for the expensive mistakes they make.

One of the best things about working on Africa in the Senate is its bipartisan support.

I am truly grateful to Senator Flake, who has been really accommodating with the time on his schedule.

Progress has been made. In April of this year, a senate was elected. Of 100 senators, 20 are women and 18 are members of the opposition.

Thank you. I would look forward to hearing updates on your progress in that important work.

The more we can press that issue and the more that we can ensure that our corporations adhere to all of our rules and regulations and all the rules and regulations of Cameroon, the better the trade will be.

We have to be very, very clear-eyed about the challenges in Cameroon and maintain a very clear-eyed perspective on some of the shortcomings that need to be overcome.

I would hope that you can impress on the governments that you will be representing us in, or with, the importance of not living up to some artificially high standard that we have set, but living up to their own documents, their own…

Moroccan clementines make up a significant percentage of our Port of Wilmington business, so it is of particular interest to me.

How do we ensure that Niger, currently a relatively staunch U.S. ally with which we have built some strong partnerships, does not become the next Mali?

These are all positive steps forward towards what we hope will be a democratic process of transparency that will have the confidence of the Cameroonian people.