"So, forgive me for interrupting, Ambassador, but are you realizing efficiencies in that proposed cut?"
"the line of questioning has focused mostly on the Middle East and Iran, but the subcommittee obviously has other focal points, including food aid and disaster relief."
"There has been--not on the part of the Administration--an issue surrounding the misinterpretation of the Helms amendment that prohibits the use of funds for the performance of abortion as a method of ..."
"we have seen increased momentum to push for reform of our international food aid programs and make them more effective and more efficient and save more lives in less time."
"I hate to use the term 'nuance'--but there is a difference between prohibiting abortion entirely and prohibiting its use as a method of family planning."
"So it is--again, we are nowhere near where we need to be, but we are in a much--there is much more of a top-down commitment from the U.N. bureaucracy."
"I think our embassies can put also--and our DATs, our defense attaches, can be engaging in, again, encouraging that kind of recruitment."
"the murder, for lack of a better term, of Alberto Nisman puts quite a crimp in the opportunity to make sure that we can more specifically get to the bottom of the perpetrators."
"what are we doing to get the Human Rights Council--how are we using our membership to get the Human Rights Council to stop it almost exclusively focusing on their obsession with Israel."
"how do we encourage more cost sharing from... wealthier countries that actually have the ability to step up?"
"But if you can more specifically discuss how we can balance the United States' role and not feed into Maduro's obvious attempt to distract from his own deliberate oppression and blame his problems on ..."