Katrina Lantos Swett: “None of them have used the tools that IRFA provides to try and actually bring about change.”

We cannot go back. After what happened to us, after the way we saw our neighbors, neighbors going back generation upon generation, either turn against us or fail to defend us in any meaningful way, we cannot rebuild our lives there.

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

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.

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