Dana Rohrabacher

Maliki hasn't done a good job, has he? He hasn't done a good job, has he? He has made things worse, hasn't he?

And the fact is that--but what we are--what--this whole issue that I just brought up, this undercuts so much of whatever the government's basic research is doing, and all the other things that have been mentioned, if our own private…

We are going to have basically a huge reduction--we have made it profitable for companies, then, to come in and eliminate R&D.

The fact that we have had a diminishing of patent protection in our country is of great concern to me.

Patent rights have been considered vitally important to American progress from day one.

This is a catastrophe for people whose lives will now not be helped by the R&D that Allergan, and other companies like it, are conducting.

We have a basic flaw in our tax system, and in our basic corporate structure that we have set up that will discourage R&D in the private sector by companies.

We should start helping making them ourselves.

I would suggest that the mullahs are very unpopular with about 90 percent of the people.

That is a very significant point to make in reference to the point that was made.

The greatest achievement of the AKP in democratization was loosening the grip on identity on who could be a Turk.

Quite often economic progress can be short circuited and cut off if the political system does not match the progress going on in the economic system.

I never justify any violation of human rights.

Maybe after 8 years people begin to lose the perspective when they have had so much power.

I am not in favor of our Government getting involved in the Internet at all. I am for Internet freedom.

So we have 30,000 sites that are blocked by the government.

What we need to hear and what we need to find out, is it a just criticism of Turkey alone?

I am in favor of return of properties to people who they belong to whether they are Christians or Muslims.

Since the time when the government halted the Gezi protests with police force in July 2013, the government has grown even more intolerant and dismissive of criticism.

I think the statements of Chairman Rohrabacher and Chairman Royce on the Gezi protests captured well the sense that the government missed an opportunity to acknowledge the large minority in Turkey that was frustrated with its lack of voice…

I think that their behavior at least ought to be the sign in some areas.

I am concerned about the hard lines he seems to be taking all the time to the Cyprus issue.

By committing ourselves to acting on such legislative measures and by holding hearings on the situation in Turkey, it is my hope that Congress will send a clear message that the Turkish Government must renew its commitment to democracy and…

We don't want stability at the price of democracy.

Our discussion here today, our comments and even our criticisms of the Turkish Government... are being done with great respect to the Turkish people themselves.