"That is why I wrote to the President of Tajikistan expressing my concerns regarding his treatment of political opponents."
"I led the Transnational Repression Accountability and Prevention Act to increase transparency about these regimes' abuse of Interpol red notices."
"More is needed. In the coming days I will be introducing the International Freedom Protection Act."
"Both of course, Sergei Magnitsky was arrested, tortured, and killed and Bill Browder is under indictment in Russia."
"It really does present a damning situation where transnational repression is really eating at the core of our own democracy."
"I think of Kara-Murza who is currently in prison in Russia."
"That is a direct attack at our system of government and it compromises our ability to get objective information."
"It is one thing to deal with this behavior when it comes from a nation that we would sort of put into the adversary camp--China, Iran, others."
"We often say we are the oldest democracy in the world and India is the largest democracy in the world. This is not the behavior of a respectable democracy."
"It is time for us to get creative, too."
"It denies us the opportunity to hear different views and it compromises our own country."
"It is also compromising the ability of the nation in which that person comes from, from having the type of participation that is necessary for that country's growth."