Chris Smith actually said...

"My hope is--and we will, as the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which I also co-chair with Marco Rubio--I think it would be very timely for us to write them and ask them to raise the issu..."

"If American advocacy for human rights and justice is to mean anything at all, the U.S. Government must do more to support these political prisoners and to hold accountable the government and the indiv..."

"It is a sad and disturbing fact that many leaders of the free world... have been less willing to stand up for those rights for the benefit of others."

"It is just couldn't be clearer the stark difference between the gross evil of what is done by the leadership of the PRC and a man of light of Liu Xiaobo's character."