Ben Cardin actually said...

"Civility begins with building strong and stable democratic processes, addressing individual and collective grievances..."

"The U.N. mission in Mali is the deadliest peacekeeping mission that we have anywhere."

"The amount of escalating violence in this region is a major concern and requires the attention of this committee, of the United States Senate, and the American people."

"There is a common theme of poor governance. And that is an issue that provides a vacuum and that vacuum is usually filled with instability and recruitment of extremists."