Gregory Meeks

The U.S.-Russia relationship remains at the top of our foreign policy agenda where it had been for more than half a century.

I respected his viewpoint, and we were able to creatively craft a solution to that dilemma while continuing to press on in this important work of preventing the abuse of children as child soldiers.

I have got to say in closing, Gregory Meeks would not be sitting on this back row in this Foreign Affairs Committee if it wasn't for Donald Payne.

Gregory Meeks would not be sitting on this back row in this Foreign Affairs Committee if it wasn't for Donald Payne.

He knew what he was trying to accomplish. He knew that that was his mission.

He knew that he would also, once he won, become a role model, a role model for many a young boy who were growing up in Newark, New Jersey.

He really was American history, he was a history teacher, and I trust that American history is going to record his life as a great American patriot.

I am devastated, a part of me, knowing that my friend Donald Payne will not be not only sitting right down a few seats from me, but able to get his advice.

Thank you for your work and for your mission and for paving the way for someone like me.

I want to say at the outset, the work that NDI, IRI, and Freedom House is doing in helping democracy...

I am concerned, what I don't want to go back to, as Professor Robert Pastor has said, though we all agree that we think it was a mistake and a setback to democracy with the election of Mr. Ortega.

If we are going to have democracy, it is not something that the United States does on a unilateral basis, because on a unilateral basis we are leading our allies, it is something that we have to do on a multilateral basis with our allies.

The OAS has done exemplary work in this election with dealing with Nicaragua.

I do believe that the United States has a positive role in which we can play in all these endeavors in the Balkans.

I outlined my deep concern over the administration's announcement of withdrawal by 2014.

I am pleased to know that you mentioned in your testimony that a well-functioning market is one where the buyer and the seller both understand the terms of the deal.

Finally, Madam Secretary, as we pull out of Iraq, and I know the agreement about 2014 is Afghanistan, I am wondering what is the response of NATO and ISAF and the Euro-Atlantic partnership Council, the Istanbul Initiative and the contact…

Likewise, I think that we need to move into a post Cold War conversation and dialogue with other countries.

We did it not just by ourselves, we did it in a multilateral way, which is a very, very positive thing in my estimation.

It seems to me as we travel now I feel that when I talk to other nations, other countries, that they again feel included.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And Madam Secretary, let me also congratulate you and the Obama administration for the supreme work that you have been doing.

It is important for us to get an accurate perception of U.S. exposure to the Eurozone crisis.

But he did. He came with some of the most landmark legislation with reference to civil rights and voting rights in the history of this country, the same thing that I see happening right now on the ground with President Santos. Landmark…

One of the things I think that everybody can agree, that President Barack Obama has been focused and he has been doing a very good job in fighting terrorism.

We agree with their concern to promote the transparent evolution of swaps trading on SEFs.