I get frustrated when I see one more government that might become a theocracy.

Sometimes when we ask these questions, they go--not just to you, but to everybody else--they go into some kind of a dark hole

I am one who feels... that in some ways our embargo has been one of the best things going for them.

It worries me and it is symptomatic of other places, and there is not a limitless amount of money.

There is no way that impoverished, corrupt government can come up with that kind of money even assuming it wanted to.

I have a long attention span.

I have one other question. We have the Leahy amendment, which prohibits aid to units of foreign security forces that violate human rights.

I do not agree with the kind of censorship that goes on in Cuba.

But passion and anger is not equivalent to assassination.

am I correct that the order is such that the vote will be at 5:30? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The order is actually for 60 minutes of debate.

We were witnessing the power of citizens to force their governments to begin a transition to democracy.

If I can take a chairman's prerogative here to praise Senator Durbin, who has been a----

It is like saying, 'Here, we will punish the PLO by hitting ourselves in the head.'

I want to publicly say, 'Thank you.'

How is that sustainable?

I believe history will show that our ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq were naive and enormously wasteful.

I think history will show, and this was before your time as Secretary, that our ambitions in Afghanistan and Iraq were naive and enormously wasteful.

We ought to have our own request, and not Israel's or any other country's request.

I worry about whether we are responding as vigorously as we should.

food security is a national security priority

The Government of Bahrain continues to use force against civilians who are demonstrating peacefully.

I do worry about safe havens for al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations developing in Africa.

We have long since been supporting extensive nation-building. Perhaps I can be convinced it can succeed. I haven't been yet.

I understand that. Perhaps you could provide for the record more fully how it differs from the money we have already given.

we are trying aggressively to change the way we partner, to partner more directly and in a more collaborative way with institutions of faith