Political Quotes

“Passing this bill will say to the world that the United States will no longer remain silent while people of faith are being tortured-- because that is what this bill covers--enslaved, abducted and killed for their religious beliefs. Passing the bill will shatter the silence. There are troubling things taking place all over the world. In the past decade in Sudan alone, 1.5 million Christians and Muslims and Animists have been killed for their faith. Starvation is that government's weapon of choice, liberally spiced with high altitude bombing in the villages, and mass murders. And there is slavery, the selling into slavery in Sudan of young Sudanese boys and girls. In China, Catholic priests and bishops are imprisoned today, as we now speak, some for decades, simply for offering holy communion. Protestant pastors are thrown in jail for having house church services, and Muslims suffer persecution, as do Buddhist monks and nuns in Tibet. In Tibet, where I have been, China's government has systematically destroyed up to 4,000 to 6,000 monasteries, and the government tightly controls all of the existing monasteries.”