"I do not think that is what Congress intended."
"There would be some potential effect on ongoing operations, in the absence of an AUMF, that you would--"
"Carte blanche is a bad thing. Time to get done with the carte blanche grant of authority to the Executive."
"What we are not seeing yet is a willingness to discuss real economic policy change."
"Major economic changes have to be made, and I am sure you will hear from Moises Naim a bit more about that."
"So there is a political cause for economic suffering and the leaders are not taking the steps needed and not tackling the fundamental changes necessary to change the economic situation."
"I am concerned that without a democratic space in which people feel they have an opportunity to express their opinion, to speak freely, hard economic changes are not going to be accepted by people."
"How can the United States not firmly be on the side of people who are being violated in this systemic way?"
"I view much of the unrest as being driven by kind of an autocratic, oil-dominated economy where corrupt people at the top skim off a lot."
"The changes generally do not get made if the autocrats feel like they can use their natural resource revenues to just kind of keep things limping along."
"When the elections were held and Maduro won over the opposition, I think I was in a tiny camp that was not sure it would be a good for the opposition to win these elections because the accumulated eco..."