Adam Kinzinger

The brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad backed up by the Iranians, backed up by the Russians... are actually creating a whole new generation of terrorists.

I think there is no more important issue than Syria, which I know you have touched on.

People simply don't like to be oppressed. Some people maybe think that they enjoy being oppressed but people don't like it.

I think he is wrong. I don't think it's a witch hunt. Look, if the president thinks there's nothing to hide in this, this will exonerate him.

What's great about our democracy and a lot of the times we get into this kind of trees in the forest and we forget looking at the big forest, what's a great about our democracy is we hold our leaders accountable.

I think it's the right thing to do. I called for this yesterday morning. I said, 'Look, this has gotten too partisan and basically any new piece of information people now put through their partisan stripes instead of, you know, what really…

We want to get more information, that's obviously a pretty brazen and big charge, but we deserve the answers to this and I think through an investigation, you know, people need to understand despite it's going to take a little bit now and…

I wish he would be dead. But that understanding, I hope we can get to a negotiated solution.

For any kind of moral equivalency to be leveled with us especially, or any of our allies, to the brutality of this demonic man.

They deliberately target innocent civilians.

We see the same thing happening in Syria.

To put a moral equivalency on our action in Mosul to what Bashar al-Assad is doing made me honestly want to throw up.

The biggest fear for Assad isn't terrorism. In fact, he has used terrorism for his own means.

But when we didn't intervene, it actually got way worse than we ever could have imagined, which is where we are at today.

I remember back in 2013 I was one of the few Republicans outspoken about the need to enforce the red line in Syria.

What is Bashar al-Assad's ultimate fear? What is the one thing that, if we push on that button, would drive President Assad, Dictator Assad, to the table to negotiate?

I also want to thank Congressman Loebsack for introducing with me the Rural Spectrum Accessibility Act.

The 5G revolution is upon us, and America must not fall behind.

The Iraqi military can be fully capable, but they need the American military to stiffen their spine at least for now.

I believe that Iran bears some responsibility for the existence of ISIS.

I thought the JCPOA was a pretty bad deal. I think it really just provides... a roadmap for a timeline on how to acquire nuclear weapons eventually.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you all for being here with us today. We really appreciate it.

Obviously we all recognize we have an opportunity for once in a lifetime, maybe in my lifetime, tax reform.

I think one of the unsung things that the State Department does is conflict mitigation.

When conflict mitigation occurs which stops a war from happening that could ultimately lead to the deaths of either the locals or, in some cases, the U.S. military, we have to go in and fix it, that is something that is never talked about.