Political Quotes

“In closing, Mr. Speaker, let me again thank Mr. Smith and Chairman Royce for their hard work and leadership. The violence and suffering that has overtaken Syria and Iraq in recent years is heartbreaking, and it is infuriating, but we cannot allow the magnitude of the problem to discourage us from trying to work toward a solution step by step. This bill puts a focus on some of the most vulnerable groups caught up in this crisis. It will help to ease their plight, and it will help to provide them a measure of justice. Before I close, Mr. Speaker, I again thank you, Mr. Poe, for your friendship and for your hard work, and Ms. Ros-Lehtinen for her friendship and her hard work. Chairman Royce just stepped out, but I want to say that we always talk about the bipartisan work that we have done on the Foreign Affairs Committee. We always say that the Foreign Affairs Committee is the most bipartisan committee in Congress, and it should be. It has to be because partisanship really should stop at the water's edge. When we are talking about global interests, we have the same interests. That is one of the wonderful things about the Foreign Affairs Committee. I don't know if I will have a chance to say this again in this Congress, so that is why I want to say it now: Ed Royce has been a magnificent chairman and a magnificent friend.…”