The United States responds to these actions with diplomatic engagement that advocates for respecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.

It is incumbent upon us to engage unequivocally at the senior most political levels of the government to express our concerns.

The threats to democracy in Hungary are real and merit our determined attention.

U.S. leadership is especially crucial today as the international community confronts Russia's unprovoked and brutal war of aggression against the people and territory of Ukraine.

Congress has had a long and abiding interest in Tibet.

I was disappointed that despite the importance the President said he will place on human rights and democracy in U.S. foreign policy these issues were marginalized during the summit.

So every time we see it we know what the answer should be, and if we take strong action then we will probably extract the results that we are looking for.

Human rights, media freedom, and the rule of law, are not nice-to-haves in Hungary--or anywhere else.

If confirmed, I would, really, be working to see is Argentina--are we holding Argentina's feet to the fire?

The United States is leading a broad and diverse group of experts in debates on the technical merits of an international instrument focused on cybercrime.

Tibet's true representatives are His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile, as recognized by the Tibetan people.

If you care about human rights, this has to be a central issue.

I just want to say that we're working on a bill that we'll be introducing soon to help the U.S. Government counter Chinese disinformation on Tibet.

The causes of Tibetan human rights and self-determination need champions all over the globe.

I think it is fair to say that we are reorienting our policy in a way that is more in tune with what the Tibetan community wants.

I hope the United States and other governments would counter directly the claims of some of these empire revivalists.

Clearly a tremendous amount of change has happened in Tibet, for the better, because there is attention from the outside world, and especially the United States.

I think our position is that Tibet's true representatives are the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government-in-exile, as recognized by the Tibetan people.