Gerry Connolly

I think we ought to be tougher, not weaker with respect to Saudi Arabia across the board.

We believe that China's active campaign to alter the Cross-Strait status quo, including by enticing countries to discontinue their diplomatic ties with Taiwan, is harmful.

Taiwan is a democratic success story. It is a reliable partner. It is a force for good in the world.

That is a petulant, peevish reason to damage the national security interest of the United States.

The damage done in our credibility is not just on paper. It is real. It is palpable.

I just think that is a destructive policy and I think the time has come for even those who were critics to admit it was working.

We are all entitled to our own opinion. We are not entitled to our own facts.

We cannot have China bullying our friends and allies in the region, and it is very important that Taiwan understands how important strategically and trade-wise and in our values and support that we have for them.

I would rather spend time in a Taliban prison camp than return to Federal service.

There is nothing wrong with that, from this chairman's point of view.

Thank you, Mr. Sarbanes, for your leadership, and you are recognized for your line of questioning.

Your leadership is so critical an issue that has got to be addressed for so many reasons--fairness, keeping families together, promoting family values in a real way.

Sometimes we need it. It ain't all bad, and sometimes we need to protect the public.

Did the District of Columbia exist in 1787?

That is a heck of a reassurance. I am sure every American can take that to the bank and feel comforted.

Ambassador Wells, this eerily has the resonance of the Paris negotiations between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho on the end of the--on China negotiating the end of the Vietnam War.

The Taliban will offer any number of commitments, knowing that when we were gone and the Taliban is back, we will have no means of enforcing any of them.

I certainly, Madam Chairman, am in favor of minority rights.

I fear that the party of Lincoln that led us in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments... is increasingly sounding like the party of Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis.

The writers of the Constitution are thinking we need a capital, and probably it is going to be a small administrative enclave.

West Virginia was formed out of the state of Virginia. That was not done by constitutional amendment.

It is absurd to insist there are only enumerated powers. There are implied powers in every article of the Constitution.

Every time the Republicans took away her vote in the committee of the whole.

When it comes to voter suppression, when it comes to voter ID, when it comes to early voting to enable people to vote, consistently they have suppressed.

This eerily has the resonance of the Paris negotiations between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho on the end of the--on China negotiating the end of the Vietnam War.