the administration pursuant to congressional law prepared a strategy which specifically included references to a military objective to remove Joseph Kony and his top commanders from the battlefield

I believe it is squarely in our national interest to build the capacity of allied forces so that they can fight bad actors on their own.

Our best hope for slowing the Iranian nuclear train is to bring its financial machinery to a grinding halt.

The fact that on any given day they do not announce to the world the exact details of a response to a particularly heinous action is not evidence that it is business as usual.

Nothing we do, nothing any administration has been doing, can truly be deemed effective with respect to Iran until Iran stops its nuclear weapons program.

I think the most dramatic measure we could take in terms of this legislation is designating Iran's central bank as a facilitator of terrorism and the development of weapons of mass destruction.

this so-called reform legislation is being marketed as a way to combat efforts by the Palestinians to gain statehood at the U.N.

I appreciate the chairman's concern regarding the degree of favoritism displayed by members of the U.N. to the Palestinians.

It is the entitlement that my grandchildren, the entitlement that they grow up in a world of peace.

There is not a serious player in Washington, DC--the good thing is this bill is never going to see the light of day.

Money, I think, is by far the strongest leverage we have at the U.N.; and, unfortunately, sometimes it is the only language that they understand and they respond to.

We have to be critical, and we have to argue against it and be passionate in our opposition.