Chris Smith

The sheer magnitude of this exploitation of women has been largely overlooked and trivialized by many.

I believe that the systematic persecution, detention, and torture of Chinese human rights lawyers appears to be a deliberate decimation of the Chinese human rights bar.

If we are not committed, all in, if you will, on human rights, they take the measure of our resolve.

By day I was a monster, by night I was a wife and mother of one child.

My hope is that we are in the process of a game-changing reappraisal of our deprioritization of human rights in China.

It is not just him and his family, it is the rest of his family, the extended family.

We will continue pursuing, obviously, Chen's case until it is resolved successfully.

We will never cease in our advocacy for you, your family, your extended family, your friends, and the very important human rights cause that you espouse.

I thank the distinguished gentlelady, the chairwoman of our committee, for her great leadership on all things related to the Middle East, especially in the defense of Israel. I thank my good friend and colleague Mr. Berman. These two…

If the other guy needed to sign the deal before I did he was in my pocket, and the Chinese understood that as clearly as possible.

The daring escape of Chinese legal advocate Chen Guangcheng from illegal home confinement was nothing short of a miracle.

The U.S. betrayed us.

Hu Jintao said, and I think we ought to take a clue from him. He said the stability of the Socialist State is dependent on our ability to 'purify the Internet.'

I told the Embassy I would like to talk to Representative Chris Smith, but they somehow never managed to arrange it.

He wants the United States to help him and his family to come out of China.

We will be unceasing in our efforts to secure your freedom.

President Ronald Reagan famously said that 'the U.S. Constitution is a covenant that we have made not only with ourselves, but with all of mankind.'

Where are we? Who are we standing with?

I think it's very important that the President of the United States speak out from the perch of the White House.

So, let's honor this man and protect this man by tearing down the Internet firewalls with priority determination.

the administration must--must--grant him and his family asylum and refuse--refuse, refuse--to apologize, despite a Chinese Government demand.

Questions indeed arise as to whether or not Chen was pressured to leave the U.S. compound.

the way to achieve the protection of Chen Guangcheng and all of the others, is sunlight, information.

If we failed Chen Guangcheng, it deals a horrible blow for this population that is braving persecution for change in China for the better.

It's amazing to me that, when asked about Chen Guangcheng, he said he had no comment.