Gerry Connolly

The killing of Soleimani was not an assassination really brings you know George Orwell to tears.

It has weakened the United States, not strengthened us.

That cannot be the policy of the United States in this region.

Is it going to be the policy of the United States to take a unilateral action without consultation with Congress or allies?

I think we have heard a lot of red herrings and false intelligence justifying the assassination of a foreign leader.

Well, it just seems to me, Madam Chairman, that this being the third hearing where we all have expressed concern about the zone of privacy and, frankly, informed consent about citizens or noncitizens whose data--in this case, their…

I think it is a combination of hubris and mendacity that anybody can do that.

The military stifled, suppressed USAID by bulldozing the agency into a clear, hold, build strategy

The story about Afghanistan and the United States' military and economic assistance to that country really deserves the kind of scrutiny you have been trying to provide.

Imagine, $132 billion.

There is an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue.

Who you give the money to... really calls the shots

Hubris and mendacity

We need answers. Were the U.S. embassies in jeopardy of attack or not?

President Trump may have infatuation for, as we have seen during his course of office, dictators and authoritarian governments, but we have neither of those in the United States of America.

So much for a safer world.

The assertion has been made here multiple times that the world is a safer place without Soleimani in it. What about the other side of that coin, though?

We have got to look at the consequences of doing so, none of which happened in this case.

Nothing that I have seen in classified settings or otherwise has shown me one shred of support for the President's initial claim that there was such a threat.

I myself have concluded that we are not, that this was not a wise course of action.

It wasn't Iran. It was President Donald J. Trump. And that did not make the world safer; it made it more dangerous.

I think there is a fundamental difference between taking out a member of a terrorist organization and taking out an individual who is an official of a nation State who happens to use terrorist organizations to promote what the State sees…

The ultimate power of war and peace was in Congress' hands, not the Commander in Chief.

Congress must have the facts surrounding this assassination. Our men and women in uniform deserve the facts. The American people deserve the facts.

The list of actions that are legally and strategically questionable continue to pile up in this administration.