Dana Rohrabacher

I would hate to depend on Turkey in a crunch the way they have been moving the last few years.

The Turkish people are going to the polls right now to decide, will they be friends of the West and the United States?

the economy will continue to suffer; the brightest will continue to leave Turkey; and the space for a liberal Turkey will become even smaller.

Erdogan's desire to maintain power at any cost is not good for the people of Turkey.

The Turkish people are voting on whether they want to have a tough, strong, centralized power controlling their government.

the Turkish people care about their democracy.

It is imperative that the U.S. and our European partners continue to press Turkey to follow the rule of law.

represent a dangerous step backwards

The bravery of our military is not and should not be used to justify specific military actions.

It is imperative that we maintain our relationship with critical allies in the Baltic States.

I fought in Afghanistan against Russian troops.

I will have to say that the United States has military forces all over the world today, and in some cases we are places that we shouldn't be.

We are talking that their 300,000 troops are a threat, but our NATO 30,000 aren't.

And the fact is that our Baltic friends, they don't even feel threatened enough to spend money for their own defense.

I would hope that there would be a system that would allow dual citizenship and allow these folks to have whatever rights Russia chooses to grant them, but to have all the rights of Estonian citizens.

The citizens of the Baltics, like citizens in the Eastern Europe, are not pieces on a board for foreign policy powers to manipulate and to control.

What you are saying is ridiculous. It is not the same as aiming a flight of bombers into the capital areas.

I apologize that this is not a balanced panel. You all have basically the same message.

I believe we must support the free press, much like we recently examined with Chairman Royce of the full committee level.

Let me just remind you, you are looking at the ultimate cold warrior here.

These double standards, we got. All I am saying is let's build a more peaceful world by at least dealing with the people who control Russia today.

You think a nuclear weapons delivery system aimed at the heart of Russia and then turning around right on the border is not hostile and provocative?

I am also an adamant supporter of NATO and the EU's role in values-based transatlantic relationship.

This is not the threat that we faced.

I am proud that American support helped these three Baltic countries reestablish their independence as communism collapsed in the Soviet Union.