David Cicilline actually said...

"What type of message do you think it sends to the LGBTI community when the State Department... has a chair of a commission that has historically been used to discriminate against the LGBTQI community?"

"Those of us who believe that the United States plays an important role in defending human rights around the world..."

"the facts as laid out in the report are accurate."

"what is at stake here is the security of our democracy, and that this was an attack on American democracy."