The Obama administration is committed to a robust foreign assistance program.
If confirmed as Secretary of State, I look forward to working with this committee and your colleagues in the House of Representatives Commit...
the 25-percent increase in Foreign Service staffing that President-elect Obama has called for would do much to address these needs.
We cannot counter insurgent and terrorist threats without civilian counterparts who can carry out economic and political reconstruction miss...
In order to equip the State Department with the tools that it needs to address today's challenges, we will need to invest additional resourc...
President-elect Obama seeks a future of cooperative engagement with the Russian Government on matters of strategic importance, while standin...
Real pressure on Russia will not come from rhetoric alone--it will come from a unified transatlantic alliance.
Democratic backsliding in Russia is real and disturbing.
We can cooperate with our Russian counterparts without pretending to be personal friends and without checking our values at the door.
I will make clear that we will not accept 'spheres of influence' in Europe.
The President-elect has specifically pledged to set a goal of an 80-percent reduction in U.S. emissions and a 50-percent reduction in global...
The Obama administration will speak out for the human rights and religious freedom of the people of Tibet.
The regime must release, unconditionally, all of the nation's political prisoners, including the symbol and leader of Burma's democracy move...
The President-elect has made clear his determination to enhance our relations with the world's Muslims.
Too often, U.S. policy toward the Americas in recent years has been negligent to our friends, ineffective with our adversaries, and disinter...
administration policy toward the Americas will be guided by the simple principle that what is good for the people of the Americas is good fo...
The current United States-Brazil relationship provides a foundation for a deeper, more comprehensive partnership between our two countries.
It makes both moral and strategic sense to lift the restrictions on family visits and family cash remittances to Cuba.
