Ben Cardin actually said...

"Promoting human rights and democracy has been central to my work as a writer, advocate, and diplomat."

"The principles of Helsinki are freedom, and peaceful and just democratic societies."

"I would like to thank Chairman Hastings and Co-Chairman Wicker for their leadership of the Helsinki Commission."

"While so many Americans enjoy the freedom to speak and write freely--and critically--about their government, elsewhere in the world millions live in conditions under which voicing any public oppositio..."