Ben Cardin actually said...

"I would encourage you to do that."

"In Syria, our policy has been Assad must go, and yet Assad is there and we really have not done much to cause Assad to go."

"I would hope that we would be transparent with this committee as to the requests that are being made through the appropriation process so that we can have a unified front in allocating the resources i..."

"As I look at Libya where we basically went in for the short term and left a country ungoverned."