Mark Green actually said...

I believe the administration had difficult choices to make. There was a difficult balance, balancing American leadership abroad versus needs...

My obligation is to take the precious money that you provide and to make it go as far as we possibly can, with quality programming worthy of...

we are legally obligated to ensure that assistance that is provided to Cuba inure to the benefit of the people and not to the regime or the ...

To retreat from that now would be to signal acceptance of the logic that Chinese power must be accommodated.