"We imposed sanctions on the individual."
"I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not."
"Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions."
"we are going to do something about this."
"there is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K."
"we need to consider how we deal with that."
"why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?"
"if Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well"
"It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky."
"You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West."
"If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well."
"The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new."