"If America is to remain a leader on the global stage, we must continue working to end the bloodshed."
"I believe Ambassador Haley when she clearly stated, 'I don't get confused.'"
"Assad is just a butcher and a murderer and it just breaks my heart that we didn't offer support to the Syrian people when they needed it the most."
"I really think to rid Syria of the butcher Assad ought to be as important as the--as our ISIS concerns."
"Assad's a murderer, a butcher. His brutality is sickening and it goes on every day."
"What's the strategy to actually counter Russian and Iran's very real and dangerous enabling of Assad?"
"I hope you'll tell us today if the strategy will be sent to Capitol Hill without any more delay."
"We need Engel's Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, as I said, which has unanimous support in the House."
"The slaughter of over 1/2 million people shocks our conscience in Syria as it would and must shock our conscience in any other country."
"We must be horrified and furious about the butcher who drops barrel bombs on schools and hospitals, who uses chemical weapons against civilians."
"The use of the weapons cannot stand and whoever would use them and whoever would support those who do cannot go unpunished."