While I know we don't focus on taxation issues in this Committee, it seems to me that one of the areas is that you all paid estimated taxes based on some phantom interest income.

It's either going to be the summit that we inherited from the previous administration or a summit that we fashion in our own view.

The regime has become more oppressive.

It's going to be a powerful statement to parts of the hemisphere that are going to be incredibly important.

We are willing to open our hands and offer you a hand in friendship if you are willing to unlock your clenched fist.

More people are still languishing in Castro's jails today.

I look forward to supporting both of you.

We need--and I've expressed this to you privately, and I hope I can get your commitment here publicly--a strong advocate.

I'm delighted you're going to join me on that trip.

The ability is not by direct intervention of the United States, but by assisting the hybrid African Union-U.N. forces.

I want to applaud your stand that you have taken concerning genocide in the Darfur region of the Sudan.

It is my sincere honor to introduce Cecilia Rouse as President-elect Obama's nominee for the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors.