you wage war and peace with the President you have, not the President you wish you had.

I have been a strong supporter of a unicameral legislature for the Federal Government for a long time.

What's absurd is you haven't--you're not functioning under a long-term authorization. That is not your fault. That is Congress' fault.

However, I will point out that right now I would assume the Trump Administration is trying to determine your successor, who will be a full-time person dedicated to being a handmaiden for the financial services industry.

I want to commend you for having a policy against what I call an anti-Armenia railroad and for limitations on investments in Gaza.

I was here when Dodd-Frank was written. It was in this room, not Mount Sinai.

I want to commend OPIC for doing what I would like to see other agencies do and that is take congressional input seriously you have adopted by regulation or by policy.

We spend, roughly, 1/5 of 1 percent of our GDP on development aid.

If they had included two-star and one-star, it would have been a much longer signature page.

That is so reminiscent of the demands of Kaiser Wilhelm who demanded for Germany a place in the sun.

But when they exercise unfairly acquired economic muscle, an economic muscle acquired through policies that we allow and that Wall Street protects, when they use that economic muscle to snuff out competing voices, then we should be…

You create conditions that will hopefully lead to democracy for some of the most unfree in the world.