I have a very high opinion of her.

A lot of it is siphoned off by corrupt officials.

You can have Islamic conservative governments. That is totally understandable to me. But those governments have to reach out not only to their neighbors, but the world at large.

Tunisia is a good example of where, if we could work with the international community to provide some budget assistance for 2 years, I think we could turn the country around.

It is the dumbest way in the world to achieve savings. It will decimate the military.

I have always believed that we are fighting an idea, not just a person, that killing bin Laden is a great accomplishment for the United States.

I had a chance to go and see the program in action in Ghana and Tanzania and South Africa, and I was just astounded what a little bit of money can do spent well.

Is it the position of this administration to deny them the ability to become a nuclear threshold state?

I hope and pray that Karzai understands that this is the last, best chance for Afghanistan to be stable.

Can I just point out to the subcommittee how important that fund is?

Egypt, strategically, is a very important country.

The problem is that their government, as Senator Leahy says, is very dysfunctional.

I think we have a good strategy, but it is imperative that we deliver quickly when it really does matter.

We urge the Congress to enact balanced deficit reduction legislation that avoids sequestration.

I hope we can persuade him to step down. It doesn't seem to be that we are very successful right now.

Sooner rather than later would be the goal.

I think we are down to 600 American military personnel.

I support the idea that United Nations subdivisions not unilaterally confer statehood on the Palestinians without first negotiating with the Israelis.

I agree with Senator Leahy on a lot in this effort to craft a foreign operations account that is more focused on results.

if the Senator will yield, here is the good news: It wouldn't take much to exceed expectations. But I want to say to the west coast Senators that their ports need to be modernized too. They need transportation hubs around their ports. The…

my first thought is that the American people are not very impressed with what we are doing up here. We have a congressional approval rating of about 10 to 15 percent. I think it would help all of us if we could go back home and say: This…

If you are an American out there and you are spending all this money on Afghanistan, you see the cross being burned and the President being burned in effigy, that is certainly not reassuring.

I would argue that we need to be looking at Syria through the same prism, that people are literally being slaughtered.

The idea of trying to arm the opposition forces needs to be considered, very much considered. And at the end of the day, what happens in Syria really can change the course of the Mideast and I do hope we can break them away from Iran.

I am very convinced that they are going down the road of developing a nuclear weapon.