Eliot Engel

I believe we need a game changing way to alter this dynamic.

What frustrates me in conversations about oil dependence are usually dominated by calls to drill more or use less.

Every President for the past 40 years has pledged to free ourselves from the dangers of oil dependence.

It is time for Congress to tell Turkey to stop.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

Their oppressive role for the past half century is undeniable.

Cuba knows what it needs to do in order to get invites to future Summits of the Americas.

If a regime doesn't permit political pluralism or fair and free elections or runs their country with terror, I'm opposed to the regime.

I take a back seat to no one when it comes to being critical of the Cuban regime.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. 542. None of the funds made…

I personally think that we should increase by at least a few battalions our force presence in Kosovo at least through the end of the year.

I think that is important.

I think it is time for Kosovo's second-class status to end.

Turkey, which is a NATO member and sadly, in my opinion, has not acted like one for a long, long, time, or for the past few years at least, is blocking Israel because of a dispute with the flotilla incident.

I think the West needs to expand, just as we expanded NATO when the Soviet Union fell.

I have always been a long-standing friend and supporter of Georgia, and I am a long-standing supporter of Georgia becoming a member of NATO.

I think in terms of our relationships with countries, all the countries to our south, none is more important than our relationship with Mexico.

I supported the FTA with Colombia, and I believe that Colombia is a tremendous example of a country that works with us.

When individual senators can hold up qualified nonpolitical nominees like yourself due to one agenda or another, it just shows that the system is broken and the time to fix it is now.

It is very disheartening that people want to still give them a free pass and say that we should just keep a blind eye.

This is an American citizen who does not by any stretch of the imagination deserve to be incarcerated.

We have all made the point that Cuba has not moved at all toward democracy and why it should not participate in another conference if it hasn't changed.

If we don't strengthen the OAS and if we start pulling back so that the United States does not have as much influence as it does on the OAS, we are going to find that the alternatives are far worse.

I do agree with the chairman that we have to show countries that it is good to align with us, not with the Chavez' of the world, because we are reliable.

I think it is important that we let our friends know that there is an upside into being allies with the United States.