I think probably most people in this room know that Chairman Smith is one of the great human rights advocates in the Unites States Congress for the past 30 years.

the very bedrock foundation principle that gave birth to America in the first place was the conviction that all human beings are children of God and that they are created equal in his sight.

Torture is something that those who are perpetrators and those who are observers are completely shamed by it and the more that you are able to express it in open terms, the more that there are people out there that you will never see that…

An Hispanic child is three times more likely to be aborted than a White child. A Black child is five times more likely to be aborted than a White child.

But there is one glaring exception: We have overlooked unborn children and that life itself is the most foundational civil right of all.

these are travesties that should assault the mind and conscience of every American.

the result is that today in America between 40 and 50 percent of all African-American babies, virtually 1 in 2, are killed before they are born.

He is not only a friend, but this man is a friend to humanity.

I do not know how I could possibly construct a more compelling commentary.

When we see malevolence and evil desecrate the innocent it is incumbent upon those of us who are part of the arsenal of freedom to respond.

I feel like that in the case of Iraq and ISIS that that responsibility was unconscionably failed and fell so short of what it should have been.