Chris Smith

We need leaders who will be vigilant and vigorous in demanding accountability from the agencies responsible for executing our government's Internet freedom policies.

I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that the bureaucrats at DRL and the BBG are relying on what they think is Congress's inadequate attention span and limited expertise to get away with this pattern of ignoring Congress's clearly…

We must use the power of public naming and shaming to try and restrain the worst impulses of businesses...

And what a shame it would be, and what a shameful thing it would be were we to not be vigilant in standing up against this effort to, as I say, sell our precious human rights birthright for a mess of economic pottage.

If we do not confront China on the ways in which it is trampling the international standards related to human rights and democracy...

It is wrong. It is morally wrong, but it is also dangerous.

This is the most massive incarceration of a minority population in the modern era, you know, certainly since the Second World War.

We should all be afraid because they have no respect for basic democratic rights that we cherish so much.

They want to transform the world. And what they want as their vision is a totalitarian dictatorship where the people serve the government.

If you think that doesn't stifle free speech and academic inquiry, I'll sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

Mosher broke that story and Stanford, to its everlasting shame, threw him out of the university.

The shameful complicity and the cowardice of many in our academic community, some of the biggest and most prestigious universities, not just in this country, but around the world, is not new.

I for one intend to look at and see whether or not there are changes to be made in Federal law.

We cannot allow this to continue as far as our laws here are concerned.

I think it falls within the context of something called intentional interference with a business agreement.

I was sitting in the audience that day and felt the surge of optimism as our nation's top diplomat laid out a robust vision.

It is in my DNA to resist these authoritarian efforts to control free, uncensored access to knowledge.

It pains me to have to say this, but right now, China is succeeding in this effort to a shocking degree.

The Chinese government spends $10 billion on maintaining and improving their censorship apparatus.

There are very real costs involved if we fail to confront China's pernicious authoritarianism at home and increasingly, abroad.

It's not a tool for freedom, it's a tool for suppression.

Next week, on April 24, we will mark the 103rd anniversary of the infamous Armenian genocide. The date of the commemoration marks the anniversary of Red Sunday, the night when the Ottoman Empire Government gave the order to arrest and…

The claims in the indictment were laughable. This is clearly an innocent man.

The Iranian deal, in my opinion, was egregiously flawed on a number of fronts anytime, anywhere, all the other reasons.

If it wasn't for the Knights of Columbus and others providing upwards of $60 million of private aid, we would have had dead children and very sick adults and elderly in--who--you know, the Christians who escaped ISIS.