"What we want is an opportunity for the young people that we all keep talking about to actually have a chance to see what a democratic country looks like."
"What I would love for us to do is what we did during the Soviet era, which is to elevate this as a matter that we discuss in every single meeting."
"Congress has not authorized war with Iran. What we need now is a clear strategy."
"The fact remains the American people have seen no evidence that killing Soleimani prevented an imminent attack against American facilities or personnel and no evidence of a discernable political plan ..."
"I think they have done more than I know we have done previously, in either Republican or Democratic Administrations, to stand by people who have been imprisoned by the Iranian regime."
"Today, we are going to be passing a resolution in the House that says we stand by the people of Iran and their struggle for human rights."
"Our actual policy right now is to hurt the people of Iran and that is what we need to be speaking about."
"The people of Iran, anyone who was born in Iran, is presumptively denied entry into the United States right now under a travel ban that makes zero sense from a national security point of view."
"The result of that was the terrorism flourished because terrorism is in many ways a response in Afghanistan, or least support for groups like the Taliban is a response to anger about corruption."
"I think in all these years there is one thing that we have not tried in Afghanistan. We have tried just about everything else, but the one thing we have not tried is to simply say we are committed, we..."
"In my view there are several fundamental mistakes, many of which you have touched upon."