Dana Rohrabacher

It is no longer acceptable to the people of the United States to be the policemen of the world.

We have forced on these people a system totally inconsistent with their tradition.

How much does it cost to have 1,000 troops in Afghanistan? You are advocating 30,000 residual troops. How much would it cost?

We are borrowing money from China in order to maintain a force in Afghanistan.

Well, we are going to have to find better ways of how we have limited amount of money now as compared to what we have had in the past.

Sounds like we set up another scenario of corruption there, to be frank.

I do wear two hats, and I am concerned about the threat to the homeland with respect to these Americans.

I would hope that our Government, after this horrible massacre in Kenya, decides to focus on some of the big guys who are really financing all of this mayhem around the world.

This is something, Madam Chair, we are going to have to deal with at some point in time.

The majority of these threats, when you look at these organizations and you look at the funding streams, the majority of them tie back to the Saudi peninsula in terms of funding.

It is a disgrace that the liberals in this country gave him such leeway over the years, never calling Castro to task for all of this violation of human rights on a mass scale in his own country.

We should be insisting that all of the money that he has stored up in foreign banks be found out and be given to the people of Cuba once this dictator is dead.

Let me just note that Castro's regime has been a disgraceful example of corruption and repression since day one.

This regime is a disgrace and has held the people of Cuba back for so long.

If America is to remain the leading Nation or at least a leading Nation in space, we must ensure that the energy and the creativity of the American commercial space industry is brought into the play in a big way.

We all worked together and this is the great thing about this Committee is that we do work together as Democrats and Republicans.

One of the things I am most proud is that I am the author of this Commercial Space Act of 2004.

Azerbaijan is an ally of the United States in a very tough part of the world.

The United States should be supportive of our friends and allies who are developing the energy resources and building infrastructure which creates stability and lifts people out of poverty.

This tremendous energy project will be an economic building factor that will benefit a wide swath of global population.

There's been this ongoing murder of innocent people by the Government of Burma that made it a pariah of the nations of the world.

Burma has for many years been very symbolic of the issues of freedom that are challenging civilization throughout the world.

It seems to me that it is a pretty misplaced set of values here when we are more interested in Chinese satellite data and we are hesitant to use commercial data from our own American companies.

This is a very expensive program but a program that provides a very important and valuable service.

I appreciate the opportunity to get to know more about this program and appreciate that some people who are out there putting an awful lot of work into making sure that the American people have the information they need and a weather…