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We will have, by a factor of five, shared more vaccines than any country on Earth, including China.

We need to be, and we are, focused on our own hemisphere, on our own region.

I couldn't agree more with the basic objectives and the basic premise.

We need to see an end to the violence. We need to see prisoners released. We need to see Burma return to the democratic path that it was on.

Not only, Congressman, will we continue to support sanctions, but we want to try to work as effectively as possible with others to bring them along in increasing the pressure on Maduro and on the regime.

I think we have seen some progress in some areas, particularly religious freedom, as well as women's empowerment.

Will you work to ensure that the SEP is not car-centric and accommodates all of these modes of transportation, especially those that serve lower income communities, like buses?

I very strongly agree with it.

We are not at all satisfied with where we are.

The Justice Department’s got to use what’s left of the Voting Rights Act -- you still have Section 2 -- and be really aggressive in going after these discriminatory measures that these states are trying to put in place.

It’s all about power, the maintenance, the retention of power. The Republicans understand the demographics are changing, that the ideology of the nation is changing, and it’s moving away from them.

They have made a determination that they can’t win elections where more people vote. And so they have made a determination that what they’re going to do is to try to change the rules.

I think, once some of this legislation is actually passed by the Senate, S.1, H.R.4., which is the John Lewis advancement, voting advancement bill, perhaps a minimum wage, when it becomes something that is concrete, something that is…

Do you care more about the filibuster or do you care more about democracy protection?

It`s all about power, the maintenance, the retention of power.

The Justice Department's got to use what's left of the Voting Rights Act -- you still have Section 2 -- and be really aggressive in going after these discriminatory measures.

The filibuster was used throughout the 20th century to frustrate the passage of civil rights bills.

It seems to me that this is the right time, this is the right act, dealing as I said with that -- that unholy trinity of voter suppression, dark money and gerrymandering.