Katrina Lantos Swett: “You have a lot of power when it comes to leading the human rights agenda.”

I think one thing we need to be prepared to do as a government is raise the refugee resettlement quotas for some of these horribly targeted communities in the region of, you know, Iraq, in particular, the area that ISIL has taken over in…

We are concerned that the designations that have been made in the past simply become... part of the wallpaper that nobody pays attention to.

The progress of freedom requires courage, it requires people in extraordinarily difficult circumstances who are willing to put their safety, their well-being on the line.

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.