Chris Smith actually said...

"It is the strategic interest of the United States to encourage governments to respect the rights of their own people because governments have failed to do so are, in the final analysis, unstable."

"The people who rule China today employ these ugly methods of control to prop up their own political power and increase their personal wealth."

"we will reiterate our request that he do so. We will write him today and write the Secretary of State, John Kerry, as well"

"When China bullies, incarcerates, tortures, and even executes a prisoner of conscience, their entire family and friends suffer an excruciating sense of loss, bewilderment, emotional pain, and agony."