"But yet this is my eighth year in Congress and I hear the same thing over and over, again, good governance, we are working on rule of law."
"we have put so much money into these programs, but yet the results are not there."
"I appreciate everybody being here. And, Mr. Klain, I have this article here and you are saying we need to keep politics out of it and need to be factual based."
"politics needs to go away and it needs to be based on science because this is something that we are all in threat of."
"We do not want to do this. And I commend everybody that is working on this to this point; it hasn't happened."
"The idea of incentivizing, you know, the officials, whether it is law enforcement, court officials, or whoever in the legal system, to incentivize them, I think, is a good thing."
"A strong America is a strong Mexico. A weakened America is a weakened Mexico. So we are all in this together."
"What I propose is that this country needs to look at things differently."
"I think Congress can do that and Congress should be the one that does that and it should be the appropriate committees."
"Successful reconstruction is incompatible with continuing insecurity, until we have a stable government."
"I am against democracy building in a lot of these countries because they are not ready for it."