"I think everyone here wants to see China have a strong, healthy, and successful future, but the only way it is going to do that is if it addresses the kinds of issues that Liu Xiaobo has raised, espec..."
"I hope the American government, especially President Obama, can personally and directly put out a strong call to the Chinese government, and demand that they release Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia immediately..."
"It seems to me that it is time to find our voice and that voice needs to be in the White House."
"It is amazing to me. I have been here 32 years as a Member of Congress and I've been working on China since I got here on human rights."
"The Chinese Government counts on, I believe, naivete and the ability to manipulate U.S. media."
"When history's pen writes about your time, represents your country in China, you will want its ink to clearly underline your having made the case for Dr. Liu's release and his wife's freedom."
"I put together a very strong group of dissidents who asked the President to raise the issue boldly."
"We will contact our Ambassador, ask that he visit the wife of Liu Xiaobo."
"Frankly, it goes back to the early 1990s. Bill Clinton linked human rights with trade and I, as a Republican, applauded that Democrat in the White House robustly."
"I often am concerned when it comes to human rights that some people get compassion fatigue."
"Sadly, he did not. It was so bad that the Washington Post, in an editorial after the joint press conference, wrote, 'President Obama Defends Hu Jintao on Rights.'"
"It has now been a year since we last convened a hearing to discuss this outrageous and senseless violation."
"Liu Xiaobo remains isolated in prison."
"I thought was an insult, frankly, to the Chinese people, including some of the leaders and people who have suffered at our witness table themselves."
"We have not forgotten Liu Xiaobo and his wife. We commit to seeking their release from confinement and detention."
"Chinese authorities continue to defend their imprisonment of Liu Xiaobo."
"Let's be clear about this aid. We don't want health and education and microenterprise, the kind of small-scale assistance that goes to the people of Rwanda to be stopped."
"I will never forget years ago, in the early days of the war in Yugoslavia, I, along with Congressman Frank Wolf, went to Vukovar and other places in Croatia after it had been devastated."
