Do you believe that the United States should insist that before there is any further deepening of this relationship that there be a call for free and independent elections?

I cannot vote for someone to be the Administrator of one of the most significant agencies that affects the health care of people in the country if I cannot glean from you in an open hearing under oath what your answers are to these…

It is just amazing to me. And I hear nothing about that in terms of our State Department and our engagement. So I hope things will change.

What bothers me is that they never talk about the Danilos Machados of the world.

the real critical thing I think more important than the normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States is the normalization of relations between the Cuban Government and the Cuban people.

a murderer is a murderer.

My legislation requires TIP rankings to be contingent on concrete actions taken by a country in the preceding reporting period.

my experience in the Senate...is the fundamental difference is that one Senator committed to an idea or an ideal and willing to fight for it can create change.

The amendment that I got into law, which now denies a country who is in Tier 3 of trafficking any preferential access to the United States in terms of any trade agreement, is incredibly important, a powerful tool.

I introduced legislation, bipartisan legislation, with Senator Rubio and Senator Kaine and Senator Gardner that makes sweeping reforms to restore the integrity to the Trafficking in Persons ranking process.

the president's recent Executive Order indefinitely suspending the resettlement of all Syrian refugees is particularly cruel and unconscionable.

we have a lot more tools at our disposition that we can use in the multilateral development banks, having a strong TIP report, thinking about how we incentivize the technology either by allowing it to be free, as you suggested, in terms of…