"We want to make sure that our actions in this body, to the extent possible, provide incentives for democratic forces, not discourage them."
"I will be offering an amendment that will call for Bashar al-Assad and senior regime officials to be referred to an international tribunal."
"No issue concerns me more deeply than that of the disposition of Syria's weapons of mass destruction."
"We need to increase the pressure on the Assad regime and this bill does just that."
"innocent civilians are again dying by the thousands in Syria and it is time that Congress act"
"I was disappointed to see that the President's budget included a 10 percent cut to indirect medical education funding."
"I think we need to be training more physicians and adequately supporting our teaching hospitals, not cutting their funding."
"I think that should be a priority, and I was also disappointed to see that significant reductions were made to various HHS agencies including the CDC."
"The lack of human rights in Cuba... the tactics that the Cuban regime has used back in the 1960s are similar to the tactics that they use now."
"I think that the doctor has extraordinary courage. And I think it is courage from people like him that will some day allow Cuba to join the list of free nations in the world."
"The United States has been the beacon of freedom throughout the world for many, many years."