I feel like that in the case of Iraq and ISIS that that responsibility was unconscionably failed and fell so short of what it should have been.

There's legislation here in the Congress that's passed the House that would give definitive protection to born-alive... babies that have survived the abortion process.

If we fail religious freedom, I think all other freedoms die with it.

If we can protect religious freedom all other freedoms will ultimately be extended.

Obviously, there's some of us, you know, that think that the rule of law applies to these little ones that have so little ability to protect themselves as well.

It's not the guns, it's whose hands they're in.

I always want to acknowledge the folks that wear the uniform and put themselves at risk for the rest of us in terms of even just putting your whole life to the cause of freedom, and I am grateful to you.

I assure you I agree with your last answer completely that we want to do everything that we can to keep guns out of the hands of criminals.

Property does not have rights, people have rights.

somebody's got to fight ISIS, and this administration is not doing that.

As dangerous as ISIS is, we need to fight them, but we cannot take our eye off of the Iranian nuclear threat.

We know that the deadline for the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran is about a week away and this administration seems hellbent on doing a deal no matter what it is.

I would say one other thing on the religious side. Xi Jinping may be making a strategic mistake. He is going a little too far. He is not being shrewd here.

So what I advocate is we have to end compartmentalization of American policies and to link every single work of the U.S. Government to human rights because it is in the interests of this country.

If you win China today, you will win the world tomorrow.

the power of the Christian community and the Falun Gong and the Uyghur community is greater than it has ever been because Xi Jinping is taking persecution one step too far.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, Mr. Chairman, to paraphrase the poet, we sleep safe in our beds at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

There is no greater champion for victims' rights legislation in this the United States Congress than Chairman Ed Royce.

when we are focused on trying to recognize the humanity of those in the shadows of life it is a worthwhile endeavor.

I admire your courage and your humanity so deeply.

I can't express to you how important I believe your perspective and the information that we will have from China and the people at this table will be to that debate.

I am convinced that Israel is as important to America as America is to Israel.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands... may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

I believe that the recent Executive action by the President on illegal immigration is categorically incompatible with the oath that he made.

If American Presidents in the future should consider these days precedents and consider themselves unconstrained to the Constitution as a matter of routine, the rule of law in America will be no more.