Gerry Connolly actually said...

We don't want you to die, Mr. Chairman, but we certainly want to take over, and I do make that pledge.

Given his pedigree, he's been referred to as a moderate, but he certainly has impeccable credentials from the revolutionary point of view.

it is implicitly an acknowledgement that we are not doing it and can't do it.

I have long believed that the U.S.-Egyptian relationship... is a critical one in the Middle East.