Gregory Meeks

We shouldn't want to be like them. I think that we set the standard, and we should be the ones that are moving forward in that regard.

I think that if we see human right violations are wrong, we should challenge the countries on their human rights.

We always talk about the United States being a leader and try to protect and make sure that there are human rights.

We need to make sure that we do the same thing with our State Department.

I always think that those who work for the State Department are underappreciated.

It is immensely more difficult to encourage reforms when our very institutions are threatened here in the United States.

History has proven that democracy requires hard work, attention, and investment from leadership.

I am worried about America's place in the world and what a rudderless Balkan region would mean.

The work that our diplomats do in the field to advance American interests under difficult circumstances is undervalued.

Without the appointees needed to direct the ship, the aforementioned vacuum will grow.

Many of my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle have amnesia about what took place before 2008.

I am extremely uneasy that we have no updated AUMF. And the President has stated, basically, that he has acted impulsively.

Congress should never be left wondering what next after the use of military force and never, especially in a situation where there is no imminent threat to our homeland.

I think that any rational, reasonable person would strongly, as I do, condemn the atrocities that took place in Syria and the utilization of chemical weapons.

I am particularly concerned about due process.

I appreciate your clarity, here today, in your books, and in your work at Cato.

I have enough questions for other folks. Thanks for being here.

Often, people forget where we have come from and what took place in 2007 and 2008, the number of jobs that were lost, how people were devastated.

I believe that the Turkish people will stand up.

He is not respecting due process or the basic tenets of democracy in what appears and is a power grab.

It pains me to watch what is transpiring in that beautiful country.

And the fact of the matter is, those people who lost their homes and jobs, et cetera, they were not just minorities; they were not just people from urban America; they were not people just from rural America; they were not people just from…

These actions demonstrate our commitment to and our prioritization for our relationship with Argentina.

I was very impressed when I had lunch with him not too long ago.

Anti-Semitism in Europe is, sadly, not a part of the past. It is not merely words.