Make it clear right here and now that these elections will be free and they will be fair, truly free and truly fair.

Hamas must abjure its own charter and radically alter its behavior if it is ever going to have any respectable place at the international table.

The Republican House is about to go out for 5 weeks, but first, they are going to sue the President and hope that we don't pay attention to the unfinished business of this country. I only have 1 minute, so I am going to have to read it…

I cannot believe that that could come to any good, so I encourage you, Mr. Hart, and your colleagues to re-examine that legislation.

The unraveling if there was such of American leadership traces directly to the cowboy diplomacy, go it alone policies of the previous administration, George W. Bush, who did incalculable damage to the standing of the United States, all…

I am frustrated, too, and I am sure you are and I am sure everyone in the audience is.

we managed a bill the other day on the floor, Chairman Royce and myself, that passed unanimously adding to the sanctions regime on North Korea.

I could not disagree with you more and I completely disassociate myself from most of what you just said.

things are beginning to change. I wish they were faster, but these are the changes we are observing.

I wish every committee would emulate what we have been able to achieve in this committee.

As the world's greatest democracy, we must take a tougher stance with the international community on North Korea's threatening antics.

It is Congress directing the U.S. Government that it must not, cannot recognize in any way, shape, or form the illegal annexation of Crimea.

one of the biggest points of leverage we have is the strength of our alliance relationships

they are stakeholders in the success of the capitalist Korea economy, are they, do you believe, more open to pressuring the North for say market reforms

I believe Iran has come to these negotiations seriously.

And there is a lot of political pressure and, of course, we are hopeful that we will resist political pressure and make a rational decision based on the merits.

I would just caution that we are in the middle of a diplomatic process and, if Congress decides to intervene that way, it sends a clear signal that we have given up on the diplomatic process.

it would be naive and, indeed, self-destructive, it seems to me, for the United States not to reauthorize the Ex-Im Bank.

It is really important for the administration... to counter it.

The sound of sirens in Israeli cities warning of rockets overhead and images of the growing humanitarian crisis now in Gaza should strengthen... our resolve to end this current conflict.

The sharp contrast between the fact that the Israeli justice system is prosecuting and pursuing those who perpetrated that murder is in sharp contrast to the absolute lack of a justice system...

The idea that the government can do nothing right is nonsense.

we are a better world because of what you do and just want to say at the outset thank you for your courage and for the work.

I believe that we undermine your cause when we rationalize a military coup with a military dictatorship as ruthless as this one.

we have to continue to press the Egyptian Government about the importance of responding to this case appropriately.