Ben Cardin actually said...

"I would encourage you to do that."

"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..."

"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."

"he has worked relentlessly to build a vision among diverse groups of nations and bind them together with a common purpose."