"I've never been there and you have, obviously. But I'm just not seeing that and go ahead and--let me talk to Mr. Chollet."
"When are they going to pick up the ball or the baton and run with it on their own without our assistance, or is that a possibility?"
"What I see is just a repeat of the same thing. You know, we've got a fractured government more than we've ever seen in the last 30 years since Anwar Sadat."
"But yet in a government that doesn't respect the things that we hold dear in a Western society or Western values--human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion--how can you expect the voice to ..."
"I believe it is because we try to put western ideologies in their government that they don't want to accept."
"I don't understand how we can throw billions and billions of dollars over and over again to a corrupt government."
"I am deeply saddened Congressman Young, a man who put all others before himself, has passed--he will be sorely missed."
"It is the government, the corruption that has been there for the last 30, 40 years that has kept those people repressed."
"I agree 100 percent with that. But giving to foreign aid, I disagree with that, especially if our money is going, and it is not accountable, it is not being held accountable."
"If we are going to go in there, we should have American workforces in there."
"I just can't find--until we change the government and the way--I don't want to change the government."