Tim Walz

America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

We need to take immediate, urgent, decisive and persistent action because if we do not, China's today and China's past will become our future.

I have a profound respect for the Chinese people and culture and want to see... if there is an ability as us as people...

I want to make it very clear that my constituents in Southern Minnesota care about that child because her father spoke out for things that are universally accepted as basic human rights.

We urge China to embrace Chen and other civil rights activists and make room for these selfless heroes.

I think it does trouble a lot of Americans, this idea of lecturing other countries on human rights when we certainly have our past transgressions...

I say it's not a choice because there's no stability without human rights.

There is a profound sense in China that there is not equal justice.

We cannot rewrite history today, but we can determine how we will act differently tomorrow.

If we really take a firm stand, like President Reagan did, on democracy, on freedom, to help in China, I believe America would become a much stronger America and China will become a better China as a result of our actions.

If the United States, in 1989, had taken a very different approach, if President Reagan had been in office, we would see a different China and we would have a different U.S.-China relationship.

The number-one call to my office is, let's just cut foreign aid and we could balance the budget.

The dictatorship wants to maintain the current trade, the current profitability.

Let us remind our friends in China that all great nations achieve more through open dialogue and free flow of information than through forced silence.

We, China, is a big fat piece of meat. The United States, the Western countries, they're going to scream and kick for a few years and then they are going to come back because they each want a piece of us.

We urge China today to end this ongoing illegal detention and to free Chen and his family.

We cannot believe China is serious about the rule of law while Chen Guangcheng and his family are being forcefully held and abused.

I also understand the emotion you experience when you go back to see the Chinese friends you built at that time.

Chen not only overcame the hardships of being blinded at a young age, but succeeded in becoming an inspiring legal advocate.

It's either Dragonslayer, or Panda Hugger, whatever it will be.

Thank you, Congressman Walz, for your wonderful speech and support for Chen's case.

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