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."

"What is inconceivable is that Daniel Ortega meddles or interferes with the Catholic Church, something that not even the dictator Somoza was willing to do."

"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."