Imagine how much worse off Mexico would be today, facing the challenges it faces, if it didn't have this democratic institution.

I think other countries in Latin America will engage with that, and at some time the United States will have to think about in what way it could constructively engage with that.

I think it's started, because I think that the economic changes that the government has announced, modest though they are, hemmed in though they are by all kinds of restrictions, I think for the first time they involve changes that the…

I think that the way in which Humala governs will depend a lot on his circumstances.

I have real and growing concerns about the approach to the war powers issue, and in particular about the precedent that may be set here.

If I might, I think that particular provision within the act...may seem to have wisely reflected the inclination toward inaction rather than action.

In the face of the atrocities committed by Qadhafi earlier this year, the United States I believe did have an obligation to protect the Libyan people from the very real threat of massacre.

I supported and applauded the passage of U.N. Resolution 1973 to protect Libyan civilians, and was encouraged by the strong international consensus surrounding this issue.

I think for a variety of reasons we have heard discussed at great detail here today, a counterinsurgency strategy is just not sustainable and is not likely, no matter how many years we pursue it, to succeed in developing a truly secure and…

I am really concerned about the points that have been raised by other members here about the very destabilizing impact on Pakistan of our role in Afghanistan and the lack of the resources to really make the engagement with Pakistan…

One of the principal reasons is in order to have the resources, the diplomatic and the military and the development resources, the focus, the capacity for lots of other important threats, to deal with Yemen and Somalia, with an emerging…