We have to be somewhat practical in our aid, but also not abandon our values.

This is what oversight is all about, is it not? Asking hard questions and making people justify their action, or lack of action.

Nobody can ever say that John Kerry has not been trying.

To my colleagues: I can understand being war weary. It is a natural response to being at war with radical Islam and other entities for a long time.

This Administration's position is the Palestinians should negotiate with the Israelis and vice versa.

For people in Africa, our investment is not lost upon them.

Do you believe that Putin is trying to undercut this election? That the actions in the east are trying to, basically, dismember the country according to the Prime Minister of Ukraine's statement that that is going on before our eyes?

I am very concerned that what you see in the east is a precursor to more Russian advancement that is pretty obvious that Putin is setting up a scenario where he is coming to the aid of ethnic Russians in the east, justifying a further…

We continue to press the Egyptian Government at high levels for redress of the NGO trial verdict.

This 1 percent I think has been well-managed, better managed over time.

I can't understand taking everything off the table.

We will continue to pursue all available options until he returns home safely.

The only trajectory we are sure of is that refugees are coming into Jordan and Lebanon at a pace that is unsustainable.

The United States has publicly called for Mr. Abedini's release at the UN Human Rights Council.

If you're wanting to deter the Iranians from acquiring a nuclear capability, if we abandon Afghanistan, that's the worst possible signal you could send to the Iranians about our resolve regarding national security matters.

if we're smart and we do this right, conditions-based withdrawal, we can leave behind a stable country that can help defend the American Homeland, or, we can leave behind a disaster that will haunt us for decades?

This is an ideological struggle, do you agree? There's no nation state to conquer.

The Afghan people have the will and desire to move out of the darkness into the light; is that a fair statement?

The Iranians would be one of the biggest winners of an unstable Afghanistan.

Terrorists thrive in ungoverned spaces and that's what we're trying to do in Afghanistan, is ensure it's not an ungoverned space.

Is it fair to say that our national security interests are not going to be judged in history by the day we left Afghanistan, but by what we left behind?

We have an historic opportunity to turn a country that's been isolated in history into an ally and can be a front-line defense against al Qaeda.

Let the Afghans know that economic aid will be cut off if they continue this.

It cost us a lot more to ignore Afghanistan than it has to be involved.

The best way to keep this war away from our Homeland is to have lines of defense throughout the world.