Chris Smith actually said...

"This issue of torture is so heinous. Doesn't Xi Jinping realize the dishonor it brings to his government..."

"It is unconscionable that a Noble Peace Prize winner remains incarcerated and--his wife all but incarcerated under house arrest and not doing very well--continues to serve out a jail sentence for aski..."

"the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard."

"Government acts of intimidation and reprisals do not exist in China. That is a big lie and it needs to be so denounced as that."