Dana Rohrabacher

Until Dr. Afridi is freed, we shouldn't even consider giving them one penny.

I plan to offer an amendment to whatever foreign aid bill comes to the floor that suggests that Pakistan should get not one penny of support for anything until Dr. Afridi, the man who helped us bring to justice Osama bin Laden, is freed…

I think the Serbs demonstrated with Montenegro that this type of thing can work, and I would hope eventually all of these people understand that these borders are artificial and they should have free trade and work together.

It would seem to be that... it would be better to have them there to strongly and emphatically enforce a pre-election.

We, the people of the United States, I mean we are here because we are declaring our independence.

This absolutely hysterical idea that borders can't change.

I don't believe in hypocrisy. If in 2008, Russia, EU and U.S. did a lot of arm twisting to say to Kosovo that the way forward is a melting pot.

I appreciate that comment, and if you do believe in self-determination by a vote of the people you don't have to worry about that, do you, because you have got that one standard.

What we could do is we can make believe that the word authority and autonomy just have different meanings and we could make pretend what those words mean.

Let me suggest to you that, and then I will go to the panel, suggest to you that had, when Yugoslavia just broke up, had the West been very clear that different people have a right to vote on their self-determination and included the…

Actually, I would never say, let them. I believe that keeping large hunks of people who are contiguous to another border can't be in the middle of a country obviously, but keeping them artificially in that other country is what creates…

Because we now aren't forcing people into a recognition of something that they don't want and they don't culturally feel right and historically feel right about it.

I am very disturbed by this settlement. This settlement will not lead to peace.

And we are saying we have to stick with the decision of some drunken royalty in one of these countries who decided this is where the borders are going to be now? It is ridiculous.

I was a huge supporter of Kosovo--and coming in to help them win their freedom and independence, because I believe in their right to make that determination, national self-determination.

Let us end the conflict and agree that those people in the northern part of Ireland have the right to make their decision with a ballot box.

What would that bring? It would bring a lot of bloodshed, that is what it would bring.

It is our own Government that is pushing this nonsense. It is nonsense.

This religious conviction that you cannot change borders or it will create all sorts of problems is, I think, the major obstacle to having a significant peace agreement between these two entities, between the Kosovars and the Serbs.

After 12 years of waiting, hope springs eternal.

And does Kosovo, how long will they insist on hanging on to an area where the vast majority, 90 percent of the people, don't want to be part of Kosovo in the same way they didn't want to be part of Serbia?

I am sure that our great thinkers at the State Department have charted out philosophically how people must be taught to respect the rule of law and that is the nirvana. That is the solution that is going to happen.

The agreement then actually depends upon KFOR and the United States to continue indefinitely, because there is no mention as to any length of time that this status quo will exist either.

Kosovo always has struck me as a great opportunity for the United States to partner with because it is a nation that likes the United States.

I guess when you have a case like that pending that it undermines this belief that everyone can just trust the rule of law.