It shows how much American leadership on the world stage still matters.

Daniel's story is an American story. It reminds us that we are a nation of immigrants.

I think to talk about it as though there would never be a spill would be inaccurate, but I think it is also to talk about as though a spill is somehow going to ruin the world is also inaccurate.

I think in situ process is interesting. It has become better and better and it always will be.

This is a matter of national security, not just economic security.

It showcases the importance of hard work and the value of an education.

Our heart goes out to their family, and I hope it reminds those of us in the Congress that your people are in the middle of combat just as much as anybody else.

Senator Lindsey Graham called ECA's exchange programs 'national security insurance' because if you send people back to their home after they have been here, seen what America is really about...

I believe it's been a good investment, and I worry about radical Islam migrating to Africa and trying to radicalize Muslim minority populations.

every time we can solve a problem without using our military, the security benefits of being involved in Africa--we don't have a whole lot of a military presence--of improving life there is a real blow to radical Islamists.

Although it is a different branch of government doing it, when we are training soldiers in a country that is supposedly our ally, and they turn around and shoot us, we should ask ourselves what in the world we are doing.

I support that as long as there's a residual force left.

Our goal is not just to write checks forever, but actually get the country in question so they can deal with it themselves.

I think Senator Leahy and I are both very concerned about a State Department army. We don't want to go down that road.

I would just like to say that, Senator Leahy, I think we've got a good partnership.

I think the whole smoke screen of having prosecutions be the reasons that we are not able to gain access to the survivors is strictly that.

A country has to look back before it can move forward. Instituting a doctrine of mea culpa would enhance our credibility by showing that American decisionmakers do not endorse the sins of the predecessors.

I was very disappointed in President Obama early in his term going around the country on, you know, basically what has been called as an apology tour.