Katrina Lantos Swett: “I am a big believer in the school of linkage and not decoupling of human rights from our other essential foreign policy…”

I think that it is a very flimsy excuse for not funding technologies that enable vast numbers of people to access the internet freely.

When you have societies that repress, oppress, persecute on the basis of sectarianism and religion, you create the seedbed for extremism...

If they are unwilling to do something so easy, so easy, then I think we have to be concerned about their willingness to do something very hard which is unwind a very elaborate and deceptive and deeply embedded nuclear program.

It offends me that as a result of exercising my right to free speech by writing a book, it has been necessary to take these steps to protect myself from an authoritarian foreign power.