Patrick Leahy

I mean, I just think it is a more challenging set of questions than--nobody doubts our singular focus and support for Israel.

All of Maryland is in shock--not shock and awe, but shock and awful because of what happened to him.

I want to publicly say, 'Thank you.'

I hope that regarding this one cooler heads may prevail.

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

I will keep the record open until Friday for any further questions.

Does Egypt now realize that the Leahy-Graham amendment on Egypt is a reality?

I urge you to make this investment in strong American leadership and a more peaceful and prosperous future.

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

Republicans and Democrats need to work together the best we can.

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.

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

The Egyptian military and Mubarak holdovers are trying to silence those who are working for democracy and human rights.

But passion and anger is not equivalent to assassination.

It is going to be a battle royale this year on the budget.

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

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

I supported our mission to go into Afghanistan because the mission was defined as to capture or kill Osama bin Laden.

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

I have a long attention span.

A stable food supply will bring countries that much further toward having a stable government and democracy.

Why don't we spend some money--we don't have to build the George Washington Parkway--to build a road like the dirt road that I live on in Vermont, where they could actually go 25, 35 miles an hour and bring the food in an hour's time to…

Years ago, I was chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and I tended to upset some of the agriculture lobbies here in the United States because I was urging that we help countries grow their own food rather than buy it.

Incidentally, I support you on this. I just want to know how we measure success.