I will relate to you something that happened in this subcommittee.

We will continue to work hard. We will continue to fail.

the problem with it I find with strategic ambiguity is that it means that if you're going to keep the foreign power guessing as to what our policy is then you cannot inform the American people of what.

My own belief is that countries make foreign policy decisions to respond to short-term domestic political needs.

Your governance has led to the decisions that have nearly brought this country to its knees.

This hearing's title focuses us on ISIS. There is also the Shiite alliance headed by Tehran including Hezbollah, Assad and many of the forces in the Baghdad government.

The dam should be kept running. That doesn't mean you have to send the electricity to ISIS.

We ought to be looking at whether we should provide visa waiver to those who have visited Turkey.

I feel like I am at a ballroom dance on the deck of the Titanic. The faith of the American people in our government and institutions is at an all-time low.

You are a governmental entity, but it is--in some parts of the entity it is one bank, one vote.

In Iraq, the Iraqi Government provides free electricity to ISIS. Are we willing to bomb the transmission lines through which that free electricity flows to Mosul?

So bomb the transmission lines inside or outside of ISIS controlled territory.