Patrick Leahy actually said...

"USAID has an essential role to play in projecting U.S. global leadership and helping to protect U.S. interests around the world."

"The United States should be a strong voice for people living under repressive, corrupt regimes who are demanding the freedoms we often take for granted."

"I think the bottom line, though, for so many of the things you pointed out that you do and that the United States has to do for its own national security, is that it's hard to do if the resources are ..."

"I was just down in Haiti a couple weeks ago and visited one of the areas where they give prosthetics to amputees."