Marco Rubio

I have expressed the importance of standing up with the people of Venezuela and unequivocally against usurpations of power and undemocratic actions.

A lot of people talk to me about the opposition, and while, indeed, they are in opposition to Maduro's regime, they are in fact the majority party in the National Assembly.

A clear message must be sent to Maduro and his colleagues that the criminals whose corruption, whose strategy, and whose orders have created this crisis and killed countless of their citizens should be targeted and held to account.

They are practically everywhere. There are at least 15,000 Cubans in Venezuela.

When the Pope says he is no longer interested in continuing to participate in a dialogue because he does not think the Maduro government is serious about it, when the Pope says that, it is a pretty strong indication of how they have used…

The State Department's core is being gutted. Tillerson is running Foggy Bottom the way a corporate raider might take over a company.

To suggest, as I have heard, the possibility of folding USAID into State, to me, is alarming.

I worry, particularly given this administration's intentions, for example, to completely cut funding for democracy assistance.

In 2015, the Congress directed the administration to deduct from our aid to the Palestinians in relation to the terrorism-related payments.

These so-called welfare payments, I think you all have described sort of a system where we are not rewarding specific acts, in the amount of just welfare payments to help people who are coming on tough times.

Partnering with Putin on a cyber security unit is akin to partnering with Assad on a chemical weapons unit.

I think the broader design was to sow instability, chaos, division in a country that already had great political division.

One of the most powerful unwitting agents of Russian influence was the mainstream media.

Any notion that Dr. Liu will receive adequate medical care under the supervision of his captors is absurd.

I've urged President Trump to seek the humanitarian transfer of Dr. Liu and his wife to the United States to explore what medical options may be available.

His eight years of imprisonment--due to his eloquent appeals for non-violent political reform and protection of basic rights--remain a travesty of justice and a stain on China's rights record.

Supporting democracy and human rights in China not only corresponds to American declared values; it will also benefit American politics, society and economics in the long term.

A powerful and autocratic China will bring calamities to mankind.

I want people to hear that so that they understand that this is not something happening halfway around the world.

So the American Bar Association, which represents lawyers and, therefore, defenders of justice, canceled the publication of a book that they invited you to write because they were afraid it endangered their programs in China?

I have had cities in my home state come to me and ask for us to open the way for Chinese consulates.

In the past when we have interacted with rights activists and others in China, a number of them have told us that they have experienced some level of harassment, even when here in the United States.

I think abusers of human rights are mostly afraid of the sunshine, they are afraid of information, they are afraid of the people knowing what they did and afraid of being asked to change their behaviors.

China must be spoken to publicly and China must be publicly shamed.

Is there the view of the private versus public? And second, what about our role here in Congress?