Patrick Leahy actually said...

"In 2003, at the urging of Senator Patrick J. Leahy, USAID's Afghanistan Transition Initiative was established."

"One of the key ingredients that we are seeing from our lessons learned so far, if you will, is that the pace that we can make progress toward sustainability..."

"the Afghan Civilian Assistance Program that you really have championed for so many years was the only program of a foreign government specifically helping victims of conflict."

"Not offering condolence payments can quickly destroy trust and breed animosity amongst the people against the U.S. military in places like Iraq."