"We believe that an international contact group of Friends of Mali... helps to bring together key stakeholders."
"We do have the capacity to use funding to help the government move back toward democracy."
"This speaks to the need for electricity, reliable electricity in Africa's largest, most populous country."
"These four countries that we visited have enormous hydropower, enormous gas, and enormous petroleum resources."
"We have tried at the Department of State to respond to it, to do on this side to educate, to inform, and encourage American energy companies to go out to Africa."
"We need to engage more aggressively in sending trade missions into Africa to show our skills, show our interests."
"Africa wants and needs our investment. They need our technology. They need our expertise, and they want and seek our collaboration."
"Not enough American companies are going into Africa because they lack the information and understanding about countries like Nigeria."
"He showed me, like he showed so many of us in this Chamber, how much more we accomplish through humility and cooperation than through bravado and partisanship."
"The decision by the President and the Government of Cameroon to end term limitations was deeply, deeply unfortunate."
"We are clearly opposed to the extension or we are clearly opposed to the reduction and elimination of term limits."
"I hope that he and others in his government will see the value of reinstating term limits."