Edward Markey actually said...

"This is an inanimate object. It has no values, good or bad. We are the ones who are going to have to animate it with the values that we believe it should have."

"We have to put strong, enforceable laws on the books that ensure that ordinary Americans know that information is being gathered about their children."

"Power Africa is a critical part of improving the lives of millions of people in Africa and supporting economic development across the continent."

"So with regard to Power Africa, for example, how can we use that to leverage U.S. investment in the energy sector as a way of extracting anticorruption protections built around those programs?"