Edward Royce actually said...

"Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel and other distinguished members of the committee, thank you very much for inviting me to testify today."

"I appreciate that opportunity, Mr. Chairman, but I think I will defer and allow the witnesses each to testify."

"the al-Qaeda-linked groups have developed really a methodology with the use of suicide bombings that they have carried to quite an extent."

"the way in which this Chechen al-Qaeda-linked organization was going house to house in their state, which neighbors Chechnya, and giving young men an option of either joining the movement, the jihad, ..."