"the President did inherit a complex and intractable foreign policy in North Korea, but his mixed and inconsistent messaging is self-inflicted--it is a self-inflicted wound."
"This administration has said that North Korea is its top foreign policy priority; but...he is, in my opinion, undercutting his own peaceful pressure strategy."
"I view the Kim regime's nuclear program as the single greatest threat to American national security and to global security."
"This measure isn't about taking sides in Kenya's politics but instead reaffirms the importance of our partnership with Kenya and our support for the people of that country as they go to the polls."
"I also am grateful to Mr. Smith of New Jersey and Ms. Bass of California, the chair and ranking members of the Africa Subcommittee, who are lead co-sponsors of this legislation."
"Why can we not exchange that? Are there technical obstacles to developing new standards for call certification?"
"What concerns me now is that we have seen escalating military activity on a number of fronts."
"I have to say that none of us envisioned we would still be relying on it nearly two decades later to fight an enemy that didn't even exist when the Twin Towers came down."
"The role of Congress in authorizing and overseeing the use of American military force around the world is really such an important issue."
"I think it needs to be bipartisan."
"Congressman Eliot Engel has been a long-time champion of this legislation, as you know, with Congressman Pat Tiberi of the Ways and Means Committee."