"This will require both Houses affirmatively to approve of an emergency, flipping the current default"
"Oppression is one of their most defining experiences."
"there's no more egregious violator of human rights today than Xi Jinping."
"we need to do more, in my humble opinion."
"I know that we kind of think of you as the iron man of human rights in the House of Representatives."
"It is scary to see that this happened right before our eyes over the past several years."
"I feel for you that you can't go back to your country and just enjoy your life as a free person."
"One of the things that I find most frightening about this new security law is that they have this whole idea of extraterritorial jurisdiction."
"It would be the equivalent of Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, all in the course of an evening being transitioned from being a bastion of hope."
"But it was far more important that we stood up to China now than afford them the ability to bully not just their neighbors, but the entire world."
"Overnight, the CCP betrayed not just the people of Hong Kong, but it lied baldfaced to the rest of the world in its ambition."
"we're going to put together a resolution asking the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to award it to the six people, beginning with Jimmy Lai"