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The voters aren't stupid. They vote for me every two years because they know I care about them, i work hard for them, I produce for them, and I vote the way they would like for me to vote. And I've been very, very effective.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 4 years ago

If I didn't have a primary, I wouldn't care.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 4 years ago

I have learned that there may be another reason for Mr. Linick's firing. His office was investigating - at my request - Trump's phony declaration of an emergency so he could send weapons to Saudi Arabia.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 4 years ago

But, certainly, cutting the WHO's funding while the world confronts the COVID-19 tragedy is not the answer.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 4 years ago

There's a reason the Obama administration and The Trump administration, at least before this point, never made such audacious legal claims. The assertion that Congress has authorized the executive branch to use force against Iran is unsound. A bipartisan majority of both houses of Congress have rejected that view in just the past few weeks through congressional findings, the administration's position is dangerous. It holds Iran directly responsible for abuses committed by armed groups under a new-fangled theory that United States would not want to see applied to our support for armed forces including the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen and the Syrian Kurdish forces' treatment of detainees.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 4 years ago

To avoid having to justify its actions to Congress, The Trump administration falsely claims Congress had already authorized the strike under the 2002 Iraq war resolution. This legal theory is absurd, the 2002 authorization was passed to deal with Saddam Hussein. This law had nothing to do with Iran or Iranian government officials in Iraq. To suggest that 18 years later this authorization could justify killing an Iranian official stretches the law far beyond anything Congress ever intended.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 4 years ago

This official report directly contradicts the President's false assertion that he attacked Iran to prevent an imminent attack against the United States, this spurious, after-the-fact explanation won't do.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 4 years ago

This spurious, after-the-fact explanation won't do. We need answers and testimony, so I look forward to Secretary (of State Mike) Pompeo testifying before the committee at an open Feb. 28 hearing on Iran and Iraq policy, including the Soleimani strike and war powers.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 4 years ago

While I would have preferred to hear from Ambassador Khalilzad in an open setting, I'm glad our members will have this long overdue opportunity to press for answers on the peace plan, it shouldn't have taken a subpoena to get the State Department to work with this committee and allow us to perform our oversight duties.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

The President veto sends a grim message that America's foreign policy is no longer rooted in our core values -- namely a respect for human rights -- and that The President views Congress not as a coequal branch of government, but an irritant to be avoided or ignored, worse still, The President veto is going to cost innocent lives. These weapons are going to continue fueling a reckless and brutal campaign of violence and exacerbating the world's worst humanitarian catastrophe.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 5 years ago

We're cutting off our nose to spite our face. The very things (Trump's) complaining about, will make it tougher for us to do.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

Excellent meeting with President @lopezobrador_ on importance of U.S.-#Mexico relationship. I emphasized need to partner in assisting Central America.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

This budget ... signals to the world that the Trump foreign policy is one of disengagement.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

I'm going to vote yes on this measure today.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 5 years ago

I welcome debate in Congress based on the merits of policy, but it's unacceptable and deeply offensive to call into question the loyalty of fellow American citizens because of their political views, including support for the US-Israel relationship, we all take the same oath. Worse, Representative Omar comments leveled that charge by invoking a vile anti-Semitic slur.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 5 years ago

It can no longer be business as usual. We need to push for a real change in Saudi behavior.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

We'll probably come back at a future date, with much more danger to our troops.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 5 years ago

We're going to try to get to the bottom of this.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 6 years ago

I'm not keeping anything under wraps, i couldn't care less. I mean, Fox News's so ridiculous. These people make Fox News up.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 6 years ago

We all know that the Russians interfered in our 2016 election, we know they interfered to try to help President Trump win. And since that time, there have been meetings between Putin and President Trump and we don't know what went on... You just scratch your head and say,' What is it ? Why is it that the President of the United States seems to go against our allies like the UK or Germany or France and cozy up to Putin ?' It makes no sense whatsoever.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 6 years ago

He couldn't just go along with it, how can you continue to work for an administration whose foreign policy is not something that you believe ? ... How can you keep working for a boss whose policies you don't believe in ?

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 6 years ago

Fortunately, Congress -- not the President -- has the power of the purse, and my colleagues and I will not stand idly by as this Administration ignores congressional intent.

– Eliot Engel

Found on CNN 6 years ago

This decision is long overdue and helps correct a decades-long indignity.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 7 years ago

President Trump's decision to welcome the Philippines’ leader to Washington at a time when thousands of Filipinos are being slaughtered in the streets—at President Duterte’s direction—calls into question long held American policy of promoting human rights and the rule of law.

– Eliot Engel

Found on FOX News 7 years ago

Under no circumstances, in my opinion, is the Obama administration simply opening the gate and releasing dangerous terrorists onto the street.

– Eliot Engel

Found on Reuters 8 years ago

I don't want to vote 62 or 63 times on killing the Iran agreement.

– Eliot Engel