I actually believe that Assad is the reason ISIS exists, and he is the continued incubator for ISIS.

I think he needs to deliver that brick wall. I think he needs to talk about the Assad regime and begin to talk about, let's force a solution here that ends the violence that ends ISIS.

I trust our intelligence agencies about this stuff. And they seem pretty convinced.

I think this is a man that reacts to power. He reacts to strength.

I think it's time for the House of Representatives to get -- pass this Russian sanctions bill that the Senate sent us.

That's a tweet that's not even becoming of a city councilman.

I want to thank you and the administration for putting what I think was an amazing red line down in the statement about a pending potential chemical weapons attack.

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

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.

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

you can't defeat an ideology with bombs and bullets. You can only defeat existing terrorists.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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…

They deliberately target innocent civilians.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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