Edward Markey actually said...

"the Europeans are our closest allies, and we need them on other initiatives, as well."

"Working in concert with the EU, the United States has the ability to create an enormous amount of economic damage to the North Korean economy."

"Now is not the time to back off the pressure."

"It is deeply important to me that we make preventing and responding to discrimination and violence against the LGBTQ community a foreign policy priority."