Eliot Engel actually said...

"This is an American citizen who does not by any stretch of the imagination deserve to be incarcerated."

"I question and say, well, what is Cuba's responsibility? We wanted to invite them, but what are they willing to do in order to get invited?"

"It is very disheartening that people want to still give them a free pass and say that we should just keep a blind eye."

"When individual senators can hold up qualified nonpolitical nominees like yourself due to one agenda or another, it just shows that the system is broken and the time to fix it is now."