Gerry Connolly actually said...

"So it puzzles me sometimes that, despite our rhetoric about wanting to reduce the debt and wanting to make sure that we get government right-sized, we are not willing to make the investment sometimes ..."

"I am concerned that to them it seems like a second tier issue that will fade in our attention."

"To protect our enduring interests we must ensure that the root causes of the upheavals of the past year... are answered by the emergence of greater freedom, greater dignity, greater opportunity."

"The MENA Incentive Fund represents a new approach for our engagement."