Chris Smith

We need more democratization in Sudan. We need to give the freedom of the people of Sudan to choose their government.

What we want in Sudan is that the rest of the world, including or spearheaded by the United States, helping us gain the freedom of the people of Sudan.

I have been shocked and dismayed by how many Ambassadors and foreign leaders have told me to my face that the LGBT agenda is what trumps everything in the U.S. foreign policy.

There are conditionalities attached which have everything to do with respecting fundamental human rights and protecting the value and the dignity of life.

The President... should pick up the phone and call some top leadership.

Human rights usually is demoted in U.S. foreign policy.

I think is a huge abrogation of duty on behalf of the administration.

As a country that was founded by religious refugees, and for whom religious freedom is our very first freedom, it is incumbent upon us in this institution, as well as the President and the State Department, to rectify the injustice, not…

As members of the United States Congress, it is vital that we continue to shine light on all of the cases of injustice and for the United States to continue exerting whatever pressure we can on governments who so blatantly and obviously…

It is important that when these designations are made it sends the message that we believe that there is egregious and ongoing violations.

It sends a message that our freedoms that we defend at home, and our International Religious Freedom Act of 1998, actually means something.

The factors contributing to this crisis are varied, starting with civil war and civil unrest.

If grouped together in a single country, would be the fourth-largest country in all of Africa.

The more than 50 million children orphaned on the continent of Africa.

In Khamenei's depiction, America is a crestfallen imperial state hastily retreating from the region.

Thank you for your work in rescuing children in this humanitarian effort, saving one child at a time.

The West, primarily the United States, needs to make sure that the Russians know we are not Chamberlain, we are going to act like Churchill.

Putin sees himself as Czar Nicholas III. He wants the Russian Empire again.

H.R. 2283, the Human Trafficking Prioritization Act of 2013, is a bipartisan piece of legislation.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has suspended exit permits for Congolese children adopted by foreign parents.

This resolution stands by Moldova, and we urge its support.

This tells them we have their backs.

There are 42 journalists in prison suffering because they dared to write the truth about what goes on.

Friends don't let friends commit human rights abuses.

I want to commend Mr. Deutch for his relentless efforts in securing Mr. Levinson's release.