Chris Smith actually said...

"I think every member of our panel, we strongly want that special envoy, that special representative yesterday."

"The U.N. has such great potential. And so often it squanders it, both by what it allows its treaty bodies to do and by what the Human Rights Council, in particular, has done."

"I am glad they are making statements--but will this lead to a matriculation from bad to worse, as we saw with the Shah of Iran?"

"The administration seems to find its voice on human rights and democracy, it seems to me, only when events portend radical change."