Chris Smith

I am very worried about who is in the classroom monitoring curriculum.

Get prisoners out! Here is a golden opportunity to do so.

I find that with Members of Congress. They go on a trip, and they are shown the sights in a way that--and we say, Raise human rights issues!

Bill Clinton, who criticized President Bush, the first one, and talked about coddling dictatorship, then coddled like nobody else before had coddled dictatorship.

I am worried about this administration not being as focused. I mean the last administration dropped the ball in a major way.

China must know that if Sino-Tibetan issues do not get resolved, His Holiness the Dalai Lama will not be reborn in Tibet under their control.

If you kill the child because they happen to be Tibetan indigenous persons, that is a part of this transfer of population.

One other thing very briefly to put on the table and that is the transfer of population, the Han transfer.

I would like to urge China to release all Tibetan political prisoners, including the 11th Panchen Lama, Gedhun Choekyi Nyima.

I would also like you all to pass the resolution expressing the sense of the Congress that the treatment of the Tibetan people should be an important factor in the conduct of United States relations with China.

The Congress should pass the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2017.

Every attempt for more freedom or democracy is oppressed by China.

Members of Congress and the administration should affirm the peaceful desires of the Tibetan people for greater autonomy and freedom within China.

The Tibetan people have a right to practice their religion, preserve their wonderful culture, and speak their language.

We should not be silent about the abuses faced by the Tibetan people and religious leaders.

Corporate America needs to get more of a backbone. It needs to stand for fundamental freedoms.

The administration's national security strategy rightly identifies China's foreign influence operations as a strategic threat.

Losing sight of these facts leads to bad policy, bad diplomacy, and the needless juxtaposition of values and interests.

It is abundantly clear that we are in direct link between China's domestic human rights problems and the security and the prosperity of the United States.

We need to accelerate what we are doing to bring focus and scrutiny to their abuses.

The OAS could do far more in holding people to account, in my humble opinion.

I have tried for 25 years to get into Cuba.

There was a lack of focus on Bolivia. There was a lack of focus on Venezuela, and when it came to Cuba...

I couldn't believe it. I held four congressional hearings on it.

I've been in Congress for 38 years and, frankly, we have had under many administrations a lack of focus on human rights.