"I want to thank you and your staff particularly for your accommodation on the en bloc amendments."
"The United Nations is an important place. It doesn't do everything right."
"This approach is basically if you don't like what is going on in a place... just cut and run."
"Do you know who would be happy with this strategy... The Iranians love this bill."
"I have long said that one of our major problems involving security south of our border is the obscene number of American guns which flow down illegally south of the border."
"For a country that is preoccupied with a 'Great Satan,' one has to conclude that no regime on Earth is more familiar with the Satanic than is the regime in Tehran."
"The outrage that was revealed this week about a plot to assassinate the representative of another sovereign nation in this capital of this sovereign nation is unacceptable."
"We must do so without the polarizing rhetoric that is reminiscent of the U.S. policies of decades ago."
"We have to stop just looking at the past. Our hemisphere has never been this democratic."
"It is not in our interest to cut foreign aid."
"A significant number of countries in the Western Hemisphere could very well hold a similar hearing on threats that stem from our own Nation."
"We are seeing for the first time significant participation in democratic life on the part of disadvantaged communities."