"I think it is extremely ill--advised."
"This budget ignores that link. It rewards one part of the triangle and it deprives, starves, the other two."
"These proposed budget cuts are a slap in the face to our Foreign Service professionals."
"If they don't go somewhere, they turn into exactly what you suggested. They are Al Shabaab; they are Boko Haram."
"This budget doesn't do it, which I think is one of its main weaknesses."
"I would hope the President would emulate all of his predecessors for many decades and release his tax returns."
"The most disturbing part of the budget, to me, is the explicit lack of faith in government."
"I think the public as a whole centers their attention on this attack from Russia on the cyberattack and on the hacking."
"It is a mixture of not just propaganda but a mixture of politics, a mixture of business and money and corruption."
"As nice as this hearing is today it is not going to accomplish what the American public needs or what our allies need overseas."
"I will submit that in writing, unless could I have 15 seconds, Mr. Chair?"
"We need to continue to support Ukraine's reform agenda."