Countries around the world advance by emancipating civil society, not by suppressing it.

This is a panel designed... to embarrass the President of the United States.

I think this is a shameful exercise, and I am very sad you have chosen to participate and be used the way you are being used.

The unethical conspiring against Egyptian civil society is in no way a national objective or in the national interest.

somebody made a decision consciously to do this. This was not an accident. They didn't stumble into it.

I believe today's hearing is a sham.

It is time for the U.N. to do even more to hold them to account.

I think that is shameful.

Somebody within the fold of the Egyptian Government... decided consciously to pick a fight with the United States.

We do not view this situation as a legal matter involving rule of law, nor do 29 Egyptian organizations who issued a statement yesterday in Cairo.

Everything you just described could have been said in 1979 about Iran.

I think it is important for the President to be putting his marker down to say that we need to examine the form and shape of government.

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I particularly wanted to welcome my home state Senator, soon to be the senior senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, Mark Warner.

I think that it created something in terms of a dynamic that improved productivity and morale.

I happen to represent Catholic Charities in my Congressional district and welcome that.

Revenues now are at 15 percent of a 75-year low.

If we are going to get a deficit solution it is going to require both a shrinking and an increase on revenue size.