Chris Smith actually said...

"I think the risks of China remaining a dictatorship, for China itself and for the world, greater by orders of magnitude than they were during the years that Ronald Reagan tried to deal with the Soviet..."

"We cannot get the State Department to do it."

"Today's silence flies in the face of an American history where Theodore Roosevelt complained about Soviet pogroms, and Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter raised human rights issues."

"Silence is not a neutral factor, it is a negative factor, and has great negative weight."