Dana Rohrabacher

We should speak out strongly against abuses of freedom of the press and politically motivated arrests in Turkey.

So your testimony today is that Arecibo is not providing at this time a service that is not being provided by someone else?

It is absolutely absurd.

This is ridiculous that we give any aid whatsoever to a power like that.

I think sometimes we need to--when we have adversaries, we need to find ways of cooperating that can actually lessen the tension between people who have different points of view and countries that have different points of view.

we need to make sure that we don't have holes in the system as we are putting--we're planning to put something up.

One of the underappreciated services provided by astronomy and by this area of science that we're talking about is an early warning system that could alert us to objects coming from space that could cause enormous damage of if not the…

I will say for the record that the Pakistani Government, the ISI, created the Taliban, along with the Saudis...

Let me note for the record that that was a pivotal decision that has led to problems.

the President has made it a national security imperative that we close Gitmo

Of course, it is a deterrent.

The President, by making it a national security imperative, has basically demonstrated that the propaganda, by people who hate us, will succeed and it will be seen and is seen as a sign of weakness by terrorists all over the world.

This is people who hate our way of life, they are engaged in an organized effort to terrorize Western civilization by murdering large numbers of noncombatants.

I would like to especially identify myself with the remarks of Ranking Member Engel.

I rise in support of all four of these resolutions, but in particular, I would like to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your leadership.

If money is going to people who have committed acts of terrorism by the Palestinian Authority, that should be extracted from our commitment to aid the Palestinian Authority.

I have watched your career for a number of years and you seem always to have gravitated toward fighting the intellectual battle.

I would think that we should be encouraging, Mr. Chairman, as many people in our private sector and throughout academia and elsewhere to actually get directly involved in this effort to reach out to those fanatical elements in the world…

I remember very well when I thought that we were going to at that point win the Cold War.

We have lived through this before. I mean, it seems that fanaticism and which then accepts violence as a means to achieving fanatic goals is not new to this era of human history.

Ronald Reagan stated very clearly, he said that one of the biggest problems is that for Americans, who take freedom for granted because freedom is invisible.

I am ashamed of our own companies, the Americans who are willing to use a totalitarian control of a people under the name of communism in order for them to make a profit.

However, we can make up for that, Mr. Chairman, by trying to be a strong voice now in trying to evolve communism out of that repressive system.

Vietnam is nowhere near that standard and the United States needs to say so aggressively.

The Government of Vietnam is in no way consistent with what the American people believe is honest government.