Ben Cardin actually said...

"There is nothing conservative about starving our foreign policy budget of a few billion dollars today in order to spend a trillion dollars later on when an otherwise avoidable crisis strikes or an arm..."

"Senators Ben Cardin and Richard Lugar inserted into the Dodd-Frank regulatory reform bill a requirement that US-listed oil, gas and mining companies report publicly their payments to host governments."

"Let me just say and you don't need to respond, in regards to Alan Gross in Cuba, we appreciate the fact that you are working to get him released from the Cuban prison."

"Energy Security Through Transparency, part of which became the Cardin-Lugar amendment S. 1504 to Dodd-Frank."