Katrina Lantos Swett: “This is going to be part of our official policy that the promotion of human rights should be a central and principal…”

That vulnerability needs to be exploited, not merely to achieve progress on the nuclear front, but to achieve progress on the human rights front.

The fact that a majority of the people in this world face persecution and oppression because of their faith is something that should offend every American.

I think there is a deeper way in which this has to be addressed, and that is that religious freedom must become a key priority of American foreign policy.

I am a big believer in the school of linkage and not decoupling of human rights from our other essential foreign policy goals.