Chris Smith actually said...

"I hope it has a bite. I hope it's not just a statement."

"But on the education front, even in your testimony you say that Ethiopia has nearly achieved the second Millennium Development Goal to achieve universal primary education, but, then the big but, that ..."

"If the United States Government could encourage American colleges and universities to become more engaged with their Ethiopian counterparts, there's the prospect over the long term of considerable ret..."

"allowing a healthy dose of political realism about our own interests and those of the peoples of Ethiopia to temper judgmentalist impulse and direct our energies instead where they can be most effecti..."