Ed Royce

There is no higher priority for this committee than stopping Iran's nuclear weapons drive.

We know, Mr. Cotton, from past experience that we do indeed have a problem with family members trying to circumvent sanctions.

It may now be a matter of when, and not if, that Iran procures these weapons of mass destruction.

You share that view. That was the question.

we need to make that bill as tough as possible, and let us go into conference with the Senate with the strongest possible bill.

Congress and this administration have stood side by side in dealing with this threat to our security and to global security.

We take no sides in the election, but we know that the desires and aspirations of the Iranian people must start with free, fair and transparent elections.

We will give diplomacy every chance to succeed because it is the only way to maintain international support for whatever options we must take, but it cannot go on forever, and ultimately the onus is on Iran.

I am convinced that President Obama is serious when he says Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon on his watch.

Your nuclear weapons program is not necessary, nor will it succeed. The United States will not allow this to happen.

We must ensure that we do everything we possibly can to show that diplomacy has or has not worked.

We are not going to back down until those Americans are home safe and sound.

Iranians are owed the rights, freedom and dignity that we cherish here as the bedrocks of our Nation.

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

this was much more than just a movement for Chechen independence, indeed it was much more ambitious, because the idea was a caliphate for the whole region.

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

we are changing our culture to this al-Qaeda, you know, psychology, and that it is a Gulf state culture, in his mind.

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, as they called it, or killing them.

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

To be justified, the bar is high. Aid must support our national security, it has to support our economic interests, it must be efficient, and it has to be effective.

MCC has served as a lab for what does and does not work.

Property rights are essential to an individual's personal and economic security, but it is also essential in terms of economic growth.

The President's proposal to reform the International Food Program, helping more at less cost, is a bright spot in the budget request.

Food aid often gets there after everyone is dead.

It is not in our interest to be exporting not goods, but to export tools and dies and blueprints.