Patrick Leahy

I was surprised that the budget recommends a cut of $87 million from the fiscal year 2010 level for aid for refugees.

I think it's time for us to review our Embassies in Israel and review again with the depth of review moving it from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

I don't think there's anything we can do that makes more sense in the poor parts of the world than encourage micro lending.

We think that's going to be in America's interests, and I agree with you that we need to make that as clear as we can.

As the old serials on radio would say, my work here is done.

I want to make sure everybody gets a chance before she has to leave.

The Senator supported me on every one of these efforts to help with amputees.

It seems so beneath a nation as powerful as ours to tell kids they can't go back and forth and talk to students in Cuba.

I know we've tried to tighten bilateral sanctions against Iran, targeting the Revolutionary Guard.

We have worked with the State Department and others on this issue.

I commend you for your unbelievable energy, not only in the work you do at the State Department but around the world in representing the United States.

If we cut all these programs, it wouldn't make a dent in our deficit but it would cause many other problems around the world, especially as it would affect America's leadership position.

The Iranian Government is trying to muzzle its people behind an electronic curtain.

One of the things he suggests we shouldn't be preventing is the equipment they might need to get on the Internet.

To me that's a sign of a regime that is afraid of its own people and that wants to hide its actions from the rest of the world.

If anybody wants to see whether bipartisanship still exists in Congress, they do not have to look any further than this subcommittee.

The role that American authors, reporters, and publishers play in our democracy is essential.

I would not change that decision one iota.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

If American authors and publishers run the risk of foreign lawsuits with every article or book that they write, then there is going to be a race to the bottom.

I would hope that we could all agree and I would hope this could be a bipartisan agreement that our courts--our courts--should not become a tool to uphold foreign libel judgments that would undermine the First Amendment or due process…

I believe that this investment could become one of the great long-term benefits of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

We have to be looking first and foremost at our analysis and say what puts somebody on there.

They did not offer excuses, but instead they have taken responsible action to provide additional security measures.

I want to begin by thanking President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, USAID Administrator Shah, General Fraser of the U.S. Southern Command, and all the hard-working people here and on the ground in Haiti for their efforts to…