Katrina Lantos Swett: “We are concerned that the designations that have been made in the past simply become... part of the wallpaper that…”

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.

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

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.

Any independent religious expression is targeted in China . . . unless practitioners of whatever faith basically submit to government-controlled religious organizations and religious worship, they are at risk of becoming a target.