Mark Green

We cannot continue to depend on hostile nations for a sizable amount of our energy needs, whether it be Iran, Venezuela, or some of them use these profits to build weapons and arsenals against us and our allies.

The key difference between a private venture capitalist and a government venture capitalist is that the private venture capitalist loses their own money...

I think we should be moving up to a higher level, though. In particular, I think we need a more robust multilateral strategy on human rights.

If you will indulge me, I was in the White House at that time.

We all have a duty to do all that we can, even if it is not enough.

I myself suffered from malaria when I served as a teacher in Kenya in the mid-1980s.

As lawmakers such as yourselves, who obviously care deeply about Africa and the developing world, you are going to be the ones with pen in hand as we go forward in writing the final chapters.

I am truly honored to be appearing before this subcommittee and to have this chance to talk with you about an underpublicized success story.

I tend to have a lot of consumers who visit with me, and they make a difference, too, you know.

Investment in the World Bank facilitates those conditions that all of our entrepreneurs need.

Everyone agrees that a growing economy is the most important single goal that we can pursue.

When we step back from these multilateral institutions... we are seen as being less engaged in taking on those challenges.

Where we can be part of institutions and initiatives that are working to create opportunity, to address those conditions that can lead to despair, we are most definitely enhancing our national security.

However, destitution, abject poverty can lead to despair. And despair is a condition, sadly, that all too often extremists know how to exploit.

One of the things that was very clear is that poverty does not cause terrorism. That is something that we need to repeat over and over again.

The world is a better place when America is engaged, when America is strong, and when our leaders... have all the tools in the toolbox.

Support for these institutions is simply part of our Nation's leadership obligations.

During these tight fiscal times, we believe that the international affairs budget programs must be accountable, transparent, and results driven.

There are rules, and these are good examples of how regulations can actually help the American public and our constituents.

It provides important consumer protections that give Americans rather than insurance companies control over their own health care.

Those of us who believe that this is the right thing to do have to have the courage to do the right thing.

Do we continue to allow the foreclosure rate to escalate? Do we continue to have people placed out of their homes on the streets?

I think that what we are trying to do is afford people bootstraps so that they can help themselves.

I would look forward to continuing the effort that we have put forth to get that one-page disclosure.

Nothing that Bush said about going into the war or since the war or creating -- turning allies into adversaries, creating more terrorist... Michael Moore is way more accurate in an hour and a half than George Bush has been in three and a…