"We can either afford to fund a food stamp program or we can fund our foreign policy interests. We cannot do both."
"That is a very dangerous place for the United States to be."
"In my view, it is not okay for the United States of America to say it's okay to overthrow a democratically-elected government however fledgling and however much we disagree with it."
"I assume that statement means he was--it was a democratic process and he was democratically duly elected as President."
"I'm reading what I think is one of the most extraordinary statements I've ever read from a United States official."
"So let me get this straight. We favor democracy unless it's a fledgling government, in which case we have a special category, and we put them under a certain scrutiny and if they don't meet standards ..."
"to trash somebody's good reputation, who has served his country well as a labor of love..."
"We are in a Kafka novel."
"I completely disavow those comments. I think you have been an exemplary public servant."
"I just want to say that, at least on this side of the aisle, you are an esteemed public servant."
"part of me feels we are a little bit fiddling while Rome is burning because of course, we are now on the first day of a complete government shutdown."