Sam Farr: “Well, keep pushing, because it isn't going to happen without you.”

My goal for U.S. aid is to achieve a level of effectiveness that every time we provide aid to a region or country it is with the final aim of transitioning them from trade to aid, like we have done in South Korea.

If you want stable democracy and you are a highly religious society, it simply won't work without religious freedom.

Sanctions are an important part of the toolkit, but they can't be the only one.

I passed legislation called Proud to be an American Day. I was hoping that we could do that on the morning of the Fourth of July, but, because it is a Federal holiday, the Federal immigration people don't work that day. So we have been…