Chris Smith actually said...

"Iran continues to be one of the world's leading abusers of fundamental human rights."

"The so-called moderate Rouhani is just another in a long list of Iranian dictators."

"I have offered, and it has passed three Congresses in a row, failed in the Senate, never got a vote--the Vietnam Human Rights Act--that we should have insisted that human rights went first, and then a..."

"This is a lifeline--as The Washington Post so aptly said, a lifeline to this dictatorship."