Chris Smith

I thought Mr. Clinton did a terrible thing in honoring him. He should have been on his way to The Hague for crimes against humanity.

We would be immediately escorted to the airport or worse.

It is one of the best prisoners lists I have ever seen. It is updated constantly, combed to make sure that it is accurate.

If you just ignore money and focus only on the academia, then you would say that we have got the soft power and they don't.

Twice the U.S. Congress has called it a crime against humanity.

The PRC law, which is outrageously unethical, immoral, and out of any human rights norms

I understand. But my hope would be that you wouldn't--I mean, that woman is immediately at risk, and she will be forcibly to be aborted.

But if a woman is or a young student is pregnant, how does that get--I mean, we have had--we have worked--I have worked personally, as well as my staff, on many cases of women who had a second-order baby, including talking to the…

We are going to hold another hearing on Liu Xiaobo very soon to try to keep the focus on a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is languishing in prison.

I led the congressional effort to nominate Liu Xiaobo, Chen Guangcheng to get the Nobel Peace Prize.

We came on a condition, and the condition was that NYU would be NYU.

If they were the most qualified applicants we could hire them, absolutely.

The Communist Party has no say, the Chinese Government has no say, no voice in this process at all.

This is my 53rd hearing on human rights in China.

It is sad to see how easily our universities can fall prey to the party's scheme.

One can argue about all the defects of the current order, but I assure you with absolute certainty that you do not want a global regime set up and dominated by the Chinese Communist Party.

We talk to ourselves too much. We like to learn by talking to people who are experts in what they do.

I think we need to take a hard look at this sort of self-censorship and how it relates to the academic freedom of American institutions.

We have heard that NYU has worked hard to maintain full academic freedom on their campus in Shanghai.

Profits trump human rights.

I do not believe that we need to bring Chinese students over here and train them in our technology schools.

We have instead enriched them and empowered them in the economic arena.

I have always called that the 'hug a Nazi, make a liberal' theory.

When we don't stand up for freedom and those people struggling for freedom in these countries, we pay the price in the end.

There was concern that Chen was too involved with so-called antiabortion activists, Republicans, and others.