Rex Tillerson: “Attaching payments as recognition of violence or murder is just something the American people could never accept or…”

We will see the world for what it is, be honest with ourselves and the American people, follow the facts where they lead us, and hold ourselves and others accountable.

Our budget will never determine our ability to be effective, our people will.

If our leaders seek to conceal the truth, or we as people become accepting of alternative realities that are no longer grounded in facts, then we as American citizens are on a pathway to relinquishing our freedom.

Where religious freedom is not protected, we know that instability, human rights abuses, and violent extremism have a greater opportunity to take root.