Amerish Bera actually said...

"We can no longer think of ourselves as isolated."

"When we think about our three planks of our foreign policy, it has three legs on it. Not just defense, but it has diplomacy and development."

"A great nation--when they see famine and when they see public health crisis--doesn't retreat from the world, a great nation leads with our moral values."

"And all of that compiled together results in some indirect pressure on the Assad regime to consider negotiations in a serious way."