Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I thank the Speaker and Chairman Royce, as well as Congressman Engel, the ranking member, for their help in bringing this important resolution to the floor. I also want to say how proud our committee is of the great work of Ranking Member Ted Deutch of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, and our Florida colleague, Gus Bilirakis, who are the authors of H. Res. 359, urging the European Union to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization. I thank Mr. Deutch for his leadership on this. This notion, Mr. Speaker, that there can be separate wings of a terrorist organization is as absurd as the notion that Iran can be a responsible member of the international community. There is no distinction between Hezbollah members. Anyone who pledges allegiance to this terror group must be labeled accordingly. One needn't look further than Hezbollah's activities in Syria or its terror attacks against Israel or even the statements coming out of Iran, its patron, and Hezbollah itself to know that if you are Hezbollah, you support terror activities. Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism, and Hezbollah is its proxy. There is simply no justification at all for our European friends to try to differentiate between a military wing and a political wing of a terrorist organization.…”