Political Quotes

Howard Smith

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Oct 31, 2011

Thank you again, especially for your 30 years of persistent effort to end China's cruel One-Child Policy and massive genocide.

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Oct 31, 2011

We urge President Obama to deny visa requests to visit America for all those who were, and are, involved in persecuting, torturing, and harassing Chen and his family.

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Oct 31, 2011

Why is the international community allowing China this cost-free deployment of soft power without any push-back, without any conditions, without any critical scrutiny?

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Oct 31, 2011

We've got to be serious about human rights, and I know you three are.

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Oct 31, 2011

We don't have a lot of leverage outside of China, but we do have one point of leverage--soft power--that seems to be just not used and I don't understand why.

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Oct 31, 2011

I'm hoping that this Commission will be a light.

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Oct 31, 2011

I would say that we have to be tough with the banker because the recent Wall Street financial crises have shown, that not being tough with 'the banker' will open everyone, the 99 percent of the rest of us, to the risks of corruption, greed, bad behavior, and consequences of a total lack of accountability.

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Oct 31, 2011

I would respectfully argue the overt efforts on human rights have never been tried.

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Oct 31, 2011

the President would be empowered, through the Secretary of State, to deny a visa to that individual and lists would be promulgated that would contain the names of people who have been part of those crimes.

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Oct 31, 2011

The idea behind this bill... is to hold Lukashenko's barbaric regime in Belarus to account using every tool we could possibly think of.

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Oct 31, 2011

I will actually be sitting on this side of the dais tomorrow. I'll be joining Chai Ling before the Judiciary Committee as a witness on behalf of H.R. 2121.

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