Eliot Engel

I think that we really have to add some perspective.

The injustice on Jacob Ostreicher and his family is difficult to fully grasp.

Clearly, we have plenty of time available for wish fulfillment, rather than substantive measures such as the economy, immigration reform, and putting people back to work. So I would like an opportunity to vote again on many different…

I really believe that we have a vital national security interest in ending the strategic relationship between Iran and Syria and severing Hezbollah's lifeline to Tehran.

Let us face it, it wasn't our willingness to talk that brought Iran to the negotiating table.

I believe that ending the Iranian nuclear weapons program is the greatest national security challenge facing our Nation.

We must act with a sense of urgency.

A nuclear-armed Iran or one with a perceived nuclear weapons capability would gravely undermine the foundations of the nuclear nonproliferation regime.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing. I know that California has been particularly progressive on measures to stop human trafficking.

I commend Congresswoman Matsui for her steadfast commitment to a 21st century Lifeline program.

I really think that we have to sufficiently fund our efforts to treat and eliminate tuberculosis.

The incentive, I think, for the people of Kosovo is that they deserved their independence and that they can be a country.

I have long felt that Belgrade was lacking in leadership of people with vision who would take their people into the future.

I hope that this committee as well as the U.S. Congress comes firmly down against the use of any force against anybody in the region in any future scenario.

I don't think it is a great agreement for either side, but I think it is a good agreement for either side.

I think we have to try, and I think that again while there's no magic wand and obviously people are born and raised in their families talking about previous wars 100 and 200 years ago, 500 years ago, and whatever, that is ingrained in…

The incentive for the Serbs to try to make this happen is that they know that they cannot become an EU member unless they normalize, to an extent, their relations with Kosovo.

I would like to see this whole agreement ground to a halt.

I hope the administration will be there every step of the way.

I think that when you boil it all down, this agreement has some promise for the future.

I would hope that this agreement would be a small step in moving the Balkans into the 21st century.

You have certainly... been a champion for freedom in the region.

Well, let me conclude by saying that I think that this should be continued to be pressed and is a real priority.

It would seem to me that we should make it clear, or that you should make it clear that that could not happen.

I am for Kosovo joining the EU and I am for Serbia joining the EU.