"But what happened the night after the election is what brought us to the point where we are today."
"I would like to point out that under Assistant Secretary Gordon's direction, five men and women--count them--five diplomats--led by Mr. Scanlan are working around the clock."
"The government did allow the monitoring mission and allowed nine opposition candidates to register and to run against President Lukashenka."
"People demonstrate in democracies and life goes on."
"The enemy is Lukashenko, and he is the enemy not just to the European Union and the United States."
"Tough talk is not good enough. There have to be major consequences for what happened."
"Neutrality in the case of Belarusian politics is an enemy of freedom and we cannot continue."
"We, in the Department's Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, are proud to be part of America's diplomacy in this case."
"They threw them in jail."
"I would strongly urge the passage of the latest iteration of the Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011."
"I urge Congress to take up and pass the latest version of the Belarus Democracy Reauthorization Act of 2011."