Political Quotes

“I thank you and the chairman. I want to commend the chairman. I want to commend Mr. Engel for his foresight in this bill and for bringing it to the floor. Mr. Speaker, I was just recently in Auschwitz. It was my first visit to Auschwitz and, obviously, seeing something like that is not something you are going to forget very quickly. Seeing something like that and an industrial machine put together to eliminate people is not something that people thought humanity was capable of until they found out that it actually was possible. So in preserving Auschwitz, the purpose was to say: Hey, this is possible. Never forget that this can happen again. Mr. Speaker, it was just recently that we learned about the crematorium that was built in the Syrian prison. Now, why was this built? It was built to hide the massive amounts of bodies coming out, tortured to death; destroyed the lives cut short in this Syrian prison. It was used to disguise that. It was used to prevent mass graves from being dug. I think that proves that Bashar al-Assad is actually a modern-day Hitler. In fact, if you look at when, as was mentioned prior, Caesar came to our committee and showed us the images of brutality--the government cataloging the victims of the Syrian regime with markers written on the body, a numbering system, and a catalog to say, in essence, document these massive amounts of death--it became very clear to us in a very visual sense what was going on in Syria. Mr.…”