A pessimist who doesn't think peace will occur in the Middle East is an optimist that has studied Middle East history.

I think we have crossed the point of what we tried to negotiate.

If you want to see one's future, look at what they presently are doing.

They have been playing the cat and mouse game for over 30 years and what I see is an administration that is incompetent on this agreement.

I thank my colleague from Iowa, Kansas, and Texas for coming down here to share your thoughts on this important item. Mr. Huelskamp, you brought up about diluting the institution of marriage, and if we keep going down this path, it will be…

I want to thank the chairmen--Mr. Conaway, Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Bishop--for their leadership on this issue. I stand here today in support of creating more jobs and improving the health of our Nation's forests through sustainable forest…

If it looks, smells, runs, and smells like a skunk, it is probably a skunk. And this is a deal that is a skunk.

I would rather give commodities. I know it is more expensive, but it is more representative of America, and the taxpayers would be better served by doing that, as our farmers would be.

We must be mindful that upholding Israel's qualitative military edge is the law of the land.

I also recognize that not all of the GCC countries have been ideal partners, and some haven't taken the necessary steps to stop terror financing.

I am personally disgusted with the platitudes, the moral relativism, the explaining away by people around here in this room...

The purpose is to make sure that the money that the American people are taxed for to provide relief to people in need go to the people that it was intended to.