Chris Coons actually said...

"I appreciate Senator Markey raising concerns about DRC and their shrinking space for elections."

"I think one of our challenges is to remain appropriately focused on the difficulties of developing a sustained strategic framework for engaging with extremism and violence on the continent while still..."

"I think the fight against terrorism across Africa is every bit as urgent and every bit as large in scale as it is in the Middle East."

"If we do not fund our values--and our values essentially are around democracy and space for opposition parties and for journalists--they draw conclusions."