Eliot Engel actually said...

"It is an absolute insult to ask any country to negotiate with a terrorist entity that denies their very right to exist."

"I think that the Palestinians going to the U.N., the way I see it, sets back the cause of peace or a two-state solution for years and years, maybe even decades."

"He is the best they have, and that is why they are exing him out, in my estimation."

"I think it is very important that we remember that this is not a partisan issue."