"I think it is important that we have a resolution that passes overwhelmingly on the floor of the House."
"The issue of exporting natural gas is controversial as a domestic issue."
"I would call upon everyone who is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee to say, 'Let us bring a foreign affairs resolution to the floor of the House.'"
"But it is not Russia that is preventing the export of liquefied natural gas. That is a matter of the economic policy and the environmental policy that the administration has substantial control over."
"I share the chairwoman's concerns to some degree, but with anything you have to ask, compared to what?"
"I want to associate myself with the chairman's opening statement and just about everything else that has been said there."
"We have an obligation to spend our foreign development dollars as effectively as possible and I am proud to be one of many cosponsors of this bill because this bill will help us be more efficient."
"This bill represents the very efficient use of a small amount of money that would be spent anyway to do something that is important for Africa as well."
"The American economy, if it fails, will not fail because, in 2014, there weren't enough entities and funds and hedge funds buying stocks and bonds from the biggest corporations."
"What can you do as regulators to prod the banks into making those small- and medium-sized business loans, instead of using all their capital on Wall Street?"
"If I could interrupt, it used to be that character mattered, that relationships mattered."
"We all agree we should be engaged in the region. We ought to provide diplomatic support for our allies. But I fear that we have already begun to go overboard."