Katrina Lantos Swett: “I commend your focus on the continued deterioration of religious freedom conditions in Iran, most notably for Christians…”

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.

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.