Kenneth Roth Quotations

We spoke openly with the Libyan government about our concerns. We disagree on many substantive issues, but they are willing to listen and discuss.

The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to advance human rights protection ? not blocking a consensus proposal that makes so much progress for human rights. The current resolution can be made to work if the United States joins with other democracies to establish the new council and make it function effectively.

It's childish for the U.S. government not to cooperate with the new Human Rights Council when it cooperated for decades with the vastly inferior old Commission on Human Rights.

It obviously doesn't do everything we hoped for. But it is clearly better than the Human Rights Commission.

Moral squeamishness shouldn't stand in the way of finding solutions to this terrible crisis.

It's a right that is broadly supported by the Mexican people, but it is a right that is rarely respected in practice.

If you're a thug, you want to be on the committee that tries to condemn thugs.

should be focused on the illegality of these prisons, not the revelation of the illegality.

States like Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, or Zimbabwe, which are members of the old Commission, cannot be allowed onto the new Council.

When Western governments try to use economic pressure to secure human rights improvements, China's no-strings rule gives dictators the means to resist.