Katrina Lantos Swett: “it is surreal for a people to have to defend themselves in this day and age not only against hateful attitudes and…”

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

you are among the most valiant and courageous defenders of human rights in all their forms and for all people everywhere that our country has known

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…

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