"I was here when Dodd-Frank was written. It was in this room, not Mount Sinai."
"I think the basic facts are clear. You do a lot to help international development, which is an important objective of the United States, and instead of at a cost to the taxpayer you actually return so..."
"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 have been a strong supporter of a unicameral legislature for the Federal Government for a long time."
"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."
"I think you might have been in this room up here when I've urged your predecessors to buy textbooks for elementary school."
"If they had included two-star and one-star, it would have been a much longer signature page."
"You should urge America to do more and, of course, when the administration urges a one-third cut in our development budget that does not help us."
"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 comp..."
"That is so reminiscent of the demands of Kaiser Wilhelm who demanded for Germany a place in the sun."