Ted Poe actually said...

"Mr. Bad Guy Assad. No question about it, he is a bad guy. He is wasting good air breathing."

"Are we doing anything?"

"I am serious about this. As the ranking member has pointed out, we go in to these agreements and all of a sudden we find out maybe we didn't get the best deal."

"I am going to have to ask a lot of questions here. Our negotiators, are they good negotiators?"