Chris Smith actually said...

"This residential surveillance forms the legal basis for Xi Jinping to maintain the one-party dictatorship."

"I would hope, and I would make the appeal, as did the Washington Post, that at Lafayette Park, those who gather in peaceful protest be given that opportunity to express themselves."

"I think our Pentagon, I think our State Department, misses by a mile the implications for China remaining not at war and not in a dire strait because of the demographic nightmare that they are experie..."

"I urge President Obama to engage President Xi on Internet freedom, press freedom, and freedom of expression."