Ben Cardin actually said...

"I think history does teach us a lot. I think basing your foreign policy on not doing what the last person did leads us to a place that is very negative for U.S. national interests."

"We do risk a lost generation of children from these conflicts if they are not able to go to school."

"I am encouraged, Secretary Blinken, by your comments that there will be very significant consequences for Russia's actions."

"I share Senator Markey's concerns that in practice we do not see the ethnic reprisals that we have seen happen so often when territory has been reclaimed from ISIS's grips."