"I want to acknowledge other cosponsors: Senators Shaheen, Rubio, Durbin, Wicker, Markey, Kirk, Blumenthal, and Cruz."
"We have to defeat these groups, and that necessarily involves coercive measures."
"Our response to these groups also has to be consistent with the values of promoting human rights."
"The TPP will be a community of common interest--a group of nations that have consented to join their economic destinies together."
"I think we would be set back considerably if that prospect were taken away."
"Absent TPP, there would be far less political cooperation between nations in shaping the rules governing this growing commerce."
"I am a very big believer in the general principle that you just outlined, that the greatest weakness of authoritarian states writ large around the world is corruption."
"There are inherent flaws in this--in these elections, inherent flaws in the system."
"Helping the Chinese people reach that day is not just our moral duty as a free people, but will have a profound effect on the state of freedom in the world and on global security."
"I think we have a much better chance of advancing our human rights objectives in the hemisphere."
"Our task is to seize that opportunity and to realize that possibility."