Kenny had once called him stupid.
Mr. Bruno, who had once called Mr. Spitzer "a spoiled brat," shunned fiery language on Wednesday.
A previous version incorrectly stated that Senator John McCain had once called for Clapper's resignation.
Mr. Steinmeier reminded lawmakers that Mrs. Merkel had once called the shutdown of technically safe nuclear reactors "absurd".
Missouri's other Senator, Republican Roy Blunt, had once called for Akin to quit but has now promised support.
He had once called Trump "terrific," and said that there was a media conspiracy to create distance between them.
In Israel, opposition was also building to what Mr. Arafat had once called the "peace of the brave".
Gen. Joseph Healey, said he had once called the TKTS booth "sort of like an erector set".
Brezhnev, who finally helped unseat him, recalled that he had once called his Kremlin colleagues "dogs peeing on curbstones".
"Someone from the bank had once called me and asked for the money back," he said, "but I told them the money was spent".
He reads, with satisfaction, the obituary of a critic who had once called his work "superficially energetic but lacking in the true American fiber, the grit, the wrestle".
