Marco Rubio

This is not Syria. The opposition we are talking about happens to be the majority party in the National Assembly.

We're of course pleased to help vigorously implement the Global Magnitsky Act.

If the US is uncomfortable with the current reality that stems from having pursued trade at the cost of promoting rights, it should now use China's need for access to the outside world as forms of leverage.

The Chinese government prefers to tolerate shallow rule of law dialogues as substitutes for meaningful human rights discussions.

Please support US engagement on China at the UN Human Rights Council.

I think letting Americans see that, or letting the world see that, has a certain utility.

We have no shortage of human rights violators on the planet.

Not only do we look forward to working closely with you on implementing the Global Magnitsky Act, but why not also demand that Chinese companies investing in the United States and elsewhere perform human rights due diligence and…

We're talking about the government, particularly the Chinese Communist Party, and the way it treats its own people.

This is an issue that unifies, and should unify, all Americans.

I'm now very confident that the committee I serve on will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation.

I'm now very confident the Senate Intel Committee I serve on will conduct a thorough bipartisan investigation of Putin interference and influence.

Well, we appreciate all of you for being here. The record is going to remain open for 48 hours, and I thank you all again for your time and for your brave testimony.

Since December of 2014 when this opening with Cuba was announced, has repression in Cuba increased or decreased?

After the President visited Cuba and left, what was the government--the Castro government's reaction to the people who met with him?

So the bottom line is what American business interests need to know is that an economic opening to Cuba is not necessarily an economic opening with the Cuban people.

The Cuban Government across its holding companies, controlled by sometimes military figures in the government, basically control the vast and overwhelming majority of the Cuban economy

We should somehow separate the political opening from the economic debate

The best way to advance the cause of human rights and freedom in Cuba is to allow for Cuba to be flooded with American business and travelers

Vladimir Putin is targeting democracy as an institution. Undermining democracy and of course United States is the most lucrative target for a KGB agent.

If United States enters any kind of deal at the expense of its traditional democratic allies or the countries like Ukraine... it will be seen as the clear case of hypocrisy.

We have now had two administrations who believed that somehow this is someone we could work with.

He has directed the targeting and the killing of innocent civilian women, children in Aleppo and in other parts of Syria.

There was still political resistance that we could see expressed, whether it was through rock bands, political parties, demonstrations.

The spread of democracy is the only proven remedy for nearly every crisis that plagues the world today.