Chris Smith actually said...

"I hope especially those who are beleaguered and being destroyed, literally, exterminated, get a ray of hope from tonight's speech by the President."

"But where has that leadership been in Syria and Iraq? Why have we allowed the Christians to be persecuted and murdered to the brink of extinction without taking action?"

"This is not a political issue, Mr. Chairman, this is about right and wrong, about a belief in our ideals and our morals that everyone everywhere, that is about justice, that is about freedom of religi..."

"What we demand is freedom to make our claims."