the promotion of democracy and human rights is an essential element of American foreign policy.
What a better use of our funds.
I think there is a strong bipartisan commitment to Asia, with specific steps and values that have animated our overall e...
I think if you ask many Americans today what is the central focus, regionally, of American foreign policy, they all woul...
I believe, that the time has come to undertake a comparative assessment of how our policies toward Asian governments eff...
I fundamentally, violently agree with your logic here.
to the extent that we can help create more space for them, for the bloggers, for activists, for others to begin to raise...
democracy, human rights have to be part of the dialogue, on an ongoing, consistent basis.
To what extend does the United States become vulnerable through an increasing dependence on a governmental structure tha...
This is the division, in terms of the debate.
We tend to focus on human rights, which are separate from governmental systems, in terms of analysis.
if we, as a nation, tolerate certain activities by closed systems that have a great deal of power, then these emerging g...
With respect to human rights situations inside China, these are the numbers that I received from my staff, from the Stat...
Burma is not Vietnam. Vietnam is not Burma.
I think this has been a very good opportunity for us to exercise some oversight, here in the Congress, on the evolution ...
We take one standard on electoral process in a place like Thailand, and then we'll say--or we will not say, to Vietnam o...
There's an old saying in the Marine Corps, that a lot of times when you are up to your neck in alligators, you tend to f...
I think it will be very clear that the central arena of historical and strategic challenges and opportunities for the Un...
