Alan Lowenthal actually said...

"We should be really holding their feet to the fire and letting them demonstrate not after they become part of the TPP, but before they do that."

"There is no denying the fact that Vietnam is an oppressive one-party state that has no respect for the rights of its own citizens."

"I think this is the inappropriate way to do it. Instead of working now at this moment to release prisoners of conscience..."

"I was so disappointed and, frankly, absolutely shocked when just a few days after returning to the United States I learned that Nguyen Chi Tuyen... was badly beaten by five plainclothes police officer..."