Doveryai no proveryai—trust but verify.

The American people do not want this intervention. You know, 63 percent to 29 percent oppose sending U.S. ground troops back into Iraq.

ISIS is not the creation of this administration, nor is the unsettlement in Iraq the responsibility of this administration.

I am not sure much is achieved by referring to the Turkish Government, a NATO ally... as a thug.

I had a friend killed in one of our embassies in a terrorist attack because there was no setback.

I'm sympathetic to the challenge that we face, and it's real.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said she is sponsoring a bill with Brad Sherman and the premise of that bill is we shouldn't differentiate.

I intend to talk about transportation, but I must say to my friend who just spoke, there is a more humane and enlightened approach to comprehensive immigration reform that would address the issues he says he is concerned about. Railing…

I often say, there are some in this Chamber who seem to know the cost of everything yet the value of nothing. Without question there are savings to be found in the federal government, but sometimes to realize those savings we have to…

By not having done so in a timely manner perhaps unwittingly we are actually expanding the proliferation threat.

I believe that's inaccurate. And for the record, I would ask you to go back and have Mr. Kennedy clarify.

I also find it interesting that in hindsight we have perfect understanding of the security needs in Benghazi.

I must say----I object to this badgering of a witness.

Characterizing Members of Congress and abusing and badgering witnesses, that is not the standard this subcommittee has set.

I am urging my colleagues to vote for an alternative that expresses our sense of Congress with respect to the need for Turkey to have a lot more progress on the return of Christian properties.

This resolution is fairly simple. It recognizes progress has been made but much progress needs to be done.

Turkey has been an ally that we are working with, a very important ally in the region, and I think that this sends the wrong message at the wrong time.

We need to speak about human rights.

All of us want to see more progress in Turkey. This resolution shortchanges the progress that has been made.

I will be offering a substitute amendment that expresses our concerns about these issues but in what I consider a more balanced way.

But to have a situation like this and not have the decency to show up where 13 members who are their best supporters just makes it more difficult for us to assist them.

What are reasonable milestones for measuring progress though?

It is par for the course. We have done it, unfortunately, with a lot of consistency for the last four years.

I want to know what they are doing in their country to stymie this exodus, because this is a humanitarian crisis.

Libya is a bit of a morality tale about how limited our reach can be.