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…”

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

I do think probably the single most significant thing that could be done to make IRFA a more effective piece of legislation...

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.

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…