Eliot Engel actually said...

"I think this is a conflict where there are bad actors on all sides."

"My Republicans colleagues' actions here remind me of a story I read when I was a little boy and that's the story of 'Chicken Little' who ran around yelling the sky is falling, the sky is falling, but ..."

"I think the United States is not going to be prepared to act unilaterally, as it threatened to do in the Balkans."

"It is the law, and frankly, I find it disconcerting that my Republican colleagues have done nothing but root for this law to fail."