Patrick Leahy

Well, of course, at the same time the State Department and others are going to have to bring some pressure on some of the governments to actually do the things necessary.

Energy, of course, is important in India as it is in the United States and they are overwhelmingly dependent upon coal to fuel their growth.

I said, yes, it happens often, and they said, and is it true that sometimes the government loses?

USAID may not get all the glory on TV but when you get out and help the world's poorest people with global issues, clean water, child mortality, HIV, malaria, it's integral to, I think, a broader national policy, smart power.

You can't have a democracy, a real democracy without a functioning justice system.

Nothing would bring about more effort to cut off money if it turns out that it wasn't spent well.

I think you are and will be an inspiration to the people in USAID.

Roads. We need roads. Today, we women, we are the roads carrying things.

We learned in Iraq that spending lots of money quickly can end up with a lot of fraud and waste.

Please keep it a priority.

I would like to sit down with you and see how objective a picture you got

I, and I believe most people here, want USAID to succeed, but you talked about outsourcing and some of the other things that are being done.

How many of your political appointees and other top positions are still waiting for final approval by the White House?

There was an Op-Ed in last Sunday's New York Times by Bono entitled 'Africa Reboots.' Did you have a chance to read that?

Like many government bureaucracies, USAID suffers from a culture of arrogance that it knows best.

I don't think USAID is living up to its potential of what... the U.S. taxpayers and this subcommittee expect it to do.

I sincerely appreciate the fact that a person of your intellect and enthusiasm has taken on this job.

They said, and so you then replace the judge? And then when I explained that, no, we don't...

I couldn't think of a better way to invest U.S. dollars and I think our taxpayers would agree to give a free quality universal education to the 4.5 million children in Haiti that really have no access today.

I want to avoid what happened in Iraq where, you know, cargo planes full of money came in.

Well, in fact, there's been a lot of delays in launching the USAID's worldwide procurement software and system.

I don't envy you the job because USAID is in urgent need of reform and it is a formidable task.

It might also help with the State Department to let them know exactly where their money's going, too.

I strongly support this nominee.

I think what people are going to do is say, do you share our concern about the fact that the court always seems to side with the big corporate interests against the average American.