Tom Malinowski

“We need to lower the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs instead of making it easier for insurance companies to charge more for less inclusive coverage.”

“We believe in rule of law not rule by decree.”

“Members of Congress concerned about human rights in Vietnam are right to maintain a healthy skepticism about its government's intentions.”

“I recognize that most Americans are tired of U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan after more than 18 years of war. I am, too.”

“Our infrastructure in America, once the envy of the world, is losing its battle against time, growth, weather, and wear.”

“An American government that really wanted to stick it to the Chinese Communist Party would be reinforcing U.S. alliances in Asia, instead of threatening to withdraw troops from South Korea and Japan until they pay extortionate rates for U.S. bases.”

“I pledge to put patriotism over party, and commit to the hard work of real reform over cheap political wins, quick fixes, and empty promises.”

“America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that unlike other countries, we have a remedy.”

“The American people do not want to waste billions of dollars on a wall that won't stop illegal immigration but will make America look fearful and foolish.”

“I haven't met a single person, Republican or Democrat, who thinks it's just fine for members of Congress to sit on the boards of corporations we regulate, or for presidents to hide their tax returns.”

“No disarmament regime is foolproof, and it was always understood that Assad likely hid some elements of his chemical weapons production capacity from inspectors.”

“You can usually figure what Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing and why by noting the actions and values he falsely projects onto others.”

“Let's face it: much of what we truly value in life is rooted in our experience of repression and conflict.”

“At the State Department, I oversaw the U.S. government's efforts to get information into North Korea. We funded defector-run radio stations, which had the added benefit of training North Koreans to be journalists.”

“The rule of law that China's dissidents ask for is important to U.S. businesses investing in China as well.”

“Putin interfered in our election because he wanted an American president who sees the world as he does.”

“At the State Department, where I oversaw our human rights diplomacy, I often confronted dictatorships like China about their censorship of the Internet, which they justified by claiming they were merely filtering out lies. Our government cannot and should not take that path.”

“By the time I joined the Obama administration in 2014, it was widely expected that the president of the United States would raise human rights concerns in just about every meeting with a foreign leader, and meet with activists in countries he visited.”

“As a Polish American, I grew up hearing the phrase 'nothing about us without us.' To Eastern Europeans, the vow is a painful reminder of how Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt carved up their small countries after World War II, placing them, against their will, under Soviet domination.”

“In a totalitarian state like North Korea, a group of neighbors gathering once a week to watch the latest episode of a forbidden soap opera is committing a political act, and forming, with the market traders who deliver them this treasure, a rudimentary civil society.”