Chris Smith

The United States cannot be morally neutral in this regard.

This policy is unacceptable. It is hated by the people. It is tragic and it is absolutely wrong.

Under Xi's leadership, the Chinese Government has pushed through new laws and draft legislation that would legitimize political, religious, and ethnic repression.

These detentions were lawless; they were brutal and shocking.

What was previously unacceptable, an Iranian nuclear state, is now inevitable under the terms and conditions of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Tragically, the deal is riddled with serious flaws, gaps, and huge concessions to Iran…

In 2013, Secretary John Kerry affirmed that the era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.

In 1793, President George Washington warned a young America that a reputation of weakness could lead us to a loss of America's rank among nations.

Without adequate supplies of clean drinking water and proper sanitation no health programming can succeed.

It was very bipartisan, but you walked point, and I thank you for that extraordinary leadership as well.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And it is indeed an honor to join you, Chairman Rohrabacher, and I thank you for your leadership on this extremely important issue.

Thank you so very much, Mr. Chairman. And I want to thank all of you for bearing expert witness to this pervasive, systematic exploitation against women, this violence against women, and for your policy recommendations, which will be very…

The issue of the arms race is real. I think this incentivizes Saudi Arabia and others, Egypt, to acquire a bomb.

I am concerned that the designations for several countries miss the mark.

Iran has been stonewalling the IAEA on this point for years.

The freedom of religion is the key human right. It is clearly the first freedom from which all others flow.

I am very honored to be here today and I wish to express my profound appreciation to Representative Chris Smith and Senator Marco Rubio for inviting me to testify.

You can count on each of those people, I think, going back to persecution, not even the fear of it.

I think we now face a choice, every one of us who are outside and inside China. We can choose to be silent and conform to these kinds of violations or we can use our liberty to advocate for those whose liberty has been deprived.

The organ harvesting issue is something we are really looking aggressively into because that is another major fundamental human rights abuse.

It ought to be--I mean, people of faith form wonderful citizens who are law-abiding and Falun Gong have shown no tendency other than to be very, very good people with good principles.

I do not see that there is any good reason to justify a state visit, a welcome to Xi Jinping this September.

This visit by Xi Jinping in September should either be canceled, postponed, or at least pre-conditioned on the release of those prisoners of conscience.

That ought to be in headlines across the world that the race to the bottom with North Korea is unprecedented.

When Pastor Fu says that in the past two years human rights and the rule of law in China have rapidly deteriorated...

I urge you and Senator Rubio to really strongly push...to reconsider the invitation to President Xi Jinping to visit the United States in September.