Political Quotes

“That is correct. And, again, I thank the Senator for his leadership and I thank him for his comments. We have 30 cosponsors of the Magnitsky legislation and I am going to be encouraging more of our colleagues to join us in cosponsorship. I want to talk a little bit about that, if I might. But let me underscore the point Senator Wicker made. Mr. Magnitsky died 2 years ago for crimes perpetrated on him that have been well documented. The Russian Federation is now charging him after his death for those crimes--after his death. Not even in Stalin's time did they try people after they died. This is the first time in Russian history that a man has been tried after his death. Further, they have summoned Mr. Magnitsky's widow and ailing mother as witnesses against their husband and son. This is a new chapter in brazen impunity. An editorial last week in the Financial Times observed that: If he is convicted, the accused's citizenship could be revoked, he could be exiled, and forced to die somewhere else. That might be funny if it weren't real. If that weren't enough, the Russian Justice Minister recently proposed that the United States and Russia conclude an extradition treaty. Legal farces like we have seen in the case of Sergei Magnitsky and many others bring reasonable people to only two conclusions, both of which are profoundly disturbing: Either senior leaders are not the ones running the country or the senior leadership is complicit in these outrages.…”