Patrick Leahy actually said...

"If we did not have our embargo, you would have so many American companies down there, fighting for the chance to do this and very openly doing it, it would have accomplished a lot more than this progr..."

"If you could figure out that it meant this, you are a lot better than most of us."

"This one had, this one from the get-go had no possibility of working. That is my problem with it."

"There are USAID people who are doing wonderful things that you and I would applaud all over the world, many at great risk to themselves because of the places they are in."