Gerry Connolly actually said...

"I strongly support Mr. Engel's amendment, which I think accomplishes what all of us on this committee in a bipartisan way should want."

"The point you are making about ransom, do I understand the point you are making is that when you have used such a highly-charged emotive word, you have clearly prejudged the situation."

"I happen to believe that the U.S.-Turkey relationship is a very strategic and critical one."

"I think it is a great distortion for us to focus only on the threat from the radicalization within the Muslim community in this country or abroad."