Chris Smith actually said...

"I am very concerned that people have forgotten that China could have made a pivot toward democracy and freedom and chose tanks and brutality instead."

"But evil need not be forever, and the suffering believers in China... are absolutely tenacious and courageous and long-suffering."

"China qualifies as an equal opportunity religious freedom abuser. There doesn't seem to be any group whose religious freedom rights they will not trample upon."

"Let me urge you, Chairman Smith, to urge the five daughters and the people who are working with the five daughters to not give up on your request to meet, get a meeting for them with President Obama."