Katrina Lantos Swett: “the notion that there should be no strings attached and that there should be no conditions for aid... is just an unwise…”

the current leaders follow in Haman's footsteps by expressing their own form of vicious anti-Semitism

By using these tools, and, frankly, I believe they have never been fully used, the U.S. can encourage respect for this right.

I want to once again reiterate how important it is that the issue of religious freedom not be cast as sort of a nice, feel good, sort of soft thing.

I do think a central part of the answer to that question is that human rights, religious freedom have to be elevated in the public discourse.