Protecting the religious liberty of some cannot be accomplished or purchased by sacrificing the rights and intent of others.

This view about causing harms to third parties is something that the Supreme Court upheld 2 years ago by a majority of the Court in the Hobby Lobby case.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I want to see the Egyptian people prosper.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.