James Jeffrey

It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.

we would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion or Turkish military action against them.

I am very disappointed. The rest of the world is disappointed, and God bless you in an impossible job you have been given to justify that.

You are always facing the possibility of something that approaches ethnic cleansing to essentially get borders shaped so that only your kind of people are in those borders.

there's a fundamental difference that we do not make clear as a country, let alone an administration, between putting troops under treaty obligations to defend territory and people against somebody else and the troops that we had in…

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.

Our top-line goal for a Syria that we and the international community can live with is one that does not support terror...

Israel is a major player in the Middle East. Its own security and its work with other countries, for example, to defeat ISIS, and to push back on Iran, is absolutely vital for our overall strategy for the region.

I think Russia's support for the Assad regime is a mistake.

What we really need in Idlib and throughout the rest of the country is a cease-fire.

We are the leaders, the beacon on the hill, you know, the shining light.