This bill represents the very efficient use of a small amount of money that would be spent anyway to do something that is important for Africa as well.

If I could interrupt, it used to be that character mattered, that relationships mattered.

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect another result.

We ask our soldiers, Marines, airmen, et cetera, to take many risks.

In the 1940s, we occupied countries. No one doubted our right to occupy.

We all agree we should be engaged in the region. We ought to provide diplomatic support for our allies. But I fear that we have already begun to go overboard.

There was bipartisan support for leaving a residual force in Iraq.

What can you do as regulators to prod the banks into making those small- and medium-sized business loans, instead of using all their capital on Wall Street?

Did we fail to get a status of forces agreement because we blew the negotiations?

The American economy, if it fails, will not fail because, in 2014, there weren't enough entities and funds and hedge funds buying stocks and bonds from the biggest corporations.

Everything we do should support democratic values and promote democratic values...

the President of the Ukraine should not be rejecting European membership and association without going back to his people.