"These communities desperately need investments that will allow them to start small businesses, create jobs, purchase homes."
"Zeroing out, for example, CDFIs... does not make any sense on behalf of the very people who we supposedly want to defend."
"I believe in a strong defense. We spend more than the next seven countries combined."
"Are you committed to robustly enforcing the law in all of its elements as it relates to these sanctions, these different financial consequences that we create on actors that are adverse to the nationa..."
"The nominees we are considering today are critical components of our national security and foreign policy, particularly in combating terrorism and implementing what I consider to be a peaceful tool of..."
"I wanted to take this first opportunity that the full Committee has had on the question of housing finance systems to lay out a few principles that I think are important."
"I would hate for any of us to leave this hearing with the impression that somehow now or in the future, private businesses and corporations could take the place of U.S. foreign aid in development over..."
"I worry that there are some views that we can head in a direction in which we can dramatically reduce that foreign assistance and what flows from it."
"If we had any other form of attack, believe me, we would have imminently responded."
"As the architect of the Iran sanctions, I can tell you that that brought Iran to the table."
"I mean, their interference has been almost purely ideological, driven by this phobia of the Muslim Brotherhood."