Chris Smith actually said...

"There needs to be a pivot to human rights. The old days have to be over of just thinking that backdoor diplomacy and mentioning it, you know, under your breath is going to work."

"Democracies must engage this brutal face of this regime and must not look the other way when human rights tragedies take place."

"What kind of a government would refuse to grant the final wish of such a peaceful, kind of man as Liu Xiaobo, a man who sincerely believes that he has no enemies, to die as a free man, to die with dig..."

"And we must demand repeatedly and clearly that unconditional release of political prisoners is in the interest of a better U.S.-China relationship."