Chris Smith actually said...

"But if what we want to do is end the war...sending in the ICC is the worst possible way to achieve that objective."

"The ICC is an extremely blunt instrument. It is not an instrument of diplomacy, but, rather, an instrument of justice."

"Christian communities in Syria have taken a huge toll in this conflict as Christians are being targeted for kidnapping, torture, and murder, by radical Islamists who hate them just for being Christian..."

"If I could, in terms of the abductions, and there's even houses where these girls are put in in province after province. What are we doing to say to the government this becomes a matter of conditional..."