Ben Cardin: “They expect that when their children are swimming in a lake, that it is safe for them to be in that lake swimming.”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.