Has that goal changed, in your opinions?

But I don't see the end results, and with all the money we have spent over the course of the last, you know, again 1 percent, $37.8 billion over 10 years--that is $370 billion of American taxpayers' money--but yet has the world gotten…

Why is that not the responsibility of that government and if we are giving them money, a cookie, and it's a good cookie and they want our cookie, why are we not willing to take that back if they are not following the procedure if we have…

How do you increase that want? Just if you have an idea how we can do that to make our money more effective--our aid more effective.

As I get Ambassadors that come in from countries all around the world, they say when they look at America they don't want us around.

If there is transparency and accountability where did our $300 million go that we don't know about and who is responsible for that?

Mr. Speaker, I want to look around this body. What are we asking to do? We are asking to fund DHS 100 percent. We are asking to put safeguards in there so that we don't move with an executive order that has been deemed illegal by a Federal…

I see the Venezuelan state as an extension of the Cuban state that has become stronger in their nature...

One terrible message that the new policy has just sent to Latin America, and the rest of the world, is that taking American hostages can be very rewarding as it has been for Cuba.

Well, and then you get somebody like Raul Castro, giving the demands when the sanctions can't--well, we will take the sanctions if you do this and this, and it just--it is ludicrous.

It is truly shameful to hear our own State Department talk about the importance of global human rights, talk about it when it does absolutely nothing and in fact is indirectly legitimizing the continued repression of the people of Iran.