Gerry Connolly

There is no such thing as too much or too little.

I mean, it was a lonely place. But I have been consistent in my position.

There's no obfuscation here, unlike the Petraeus case. And there's no evasion. There's no lying.

Today's hearing is political theatre. There's not even the pretense of trying to get at the truth.

By not being a member, and the Chinese being a member, they actually can influence all the committees and subcommittees and we can't.

I count myself, certainly, as an unswerving supporter of Israel, but that doesn't mean I can't be critical as a friend.

The point of this hearing by the majority, references to communism notwithstanding, is to try to prove that the Federal Government is reckless...

Surely my colleague did not mean to suggest that those of us who have a different opinion on guns are communists.

There has to be another alternative making this better, creating political space so that we aren't faced with a black-and-white, either/or alternative.

I believe that those actions are almost designed to play into the hands of the very people you and I want to prevent from coming to power.

To be a critic of the el-Sisi government is not to view terrorists as lapsed Democrats.

I mean, you couldn't have asked for a better sense of citizenship.

However repressive or anti-democratic tendencies they may have been showing at the time of the overthrow, they did not do what this government has done against its own citizens.

The idea that there is only this military-led government or chaos in the void seems to me an unacceptable proposition.

Without questioning this government, without challenging this government, without holding it to certain standards, that is precisely the alternative.

The only viable electoral alternative was the Muslim Brotherhood. They were the only ones who had organized.

If you don't create political space, you are inviting repression and authoritarian regimes because there is no alternative.

American patience is not unlimited, and the Egyptian leverage on the relationship is also not unlimited.

I urge our friends not to silence the discourse on human rights.

I am quite troubled by the direction of the country when it comes to civil society and human rights.

I want to see the Egyptian people prosper.

My sense in Central Asia is deep anxiety about Russian intentions.

I am the head of the U.S. delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

I must say to my colleagues, it's-- we might walk a little humbly in the face of the Lord when we're a body that's been accused individually of sexual harassment.

Shame on everybody for making it such a big issue. I don't think it is.