Brad Sherman actually said...

"If we can drive down the price of oil and diminish the world's dependence upon the Middle East, we might avoid the next Iraq war and the environmental degradation that that involves."

"As to this century, I have seen this committee and the House of Representatives in general go from foreign policy makers to foreign policy kibitzers..."

"We should recognize that we often support not territorial integrity but self-determination, and we are often somewhat inconsistent on this."

"To tie the President's hands and say that we have to continue these sanctions... makes the bill more unwieldy."