Eliot Engel actually said...

"It's just really disgraceful what's going on in Turkey."

"Democracy is hard work, especially in countries that are poor and that have experienced violent conflict, and it takes time and a great deal of effort."

"Several formerly democratic countries... have moved in a decisively autocratic direction over the last several years."

"it's based upon, in my view, just a failure to understand what we do and the value of what we do."