María Elvira Salazar actually said...

"Thanks to you, Mr. Chairman, and you are the distinguished one, Representative Smith, for putting together this hearing and always caring about the people from Nicaragua."

"Is he acting under the knowledge that there is no political cost to pay for doing what he's doing to the Catholic Church or does he know that there is a cost?"

"But Bishop Obando y Bravo, back in the day, did actually accomplish that the Sandinistas did not gain power through elections."

"we will not rest so long as we're in this position and we will not forget that they are two heartless dictators"