Gerry Connolly actually said...

"I just wonder if he will indulge the panel to respond to that last point."

"I sometimes wonder on our committee, when we talk about Turkey, whether we can step back a little bit and look at context and attributes as opposed to looking for fault only."

"How worried should we be about that? And are there countervailing forces that can be looked to to try to redress what is, in fact, happening in Turkey?"

"I mean, Syria sends Hafez al-Assad, was the Soviet Union's one client state in the region, and that goes back to 1970."