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We need to see much greater access to the region, accountability, an effort to put a dialogue in place.

Houthi aggression has contributed to what is by most accounts the worst humanitarian situation that we face anywhere in the world.

I think we found that out in practice. Yes, I think there was a broad consensus that economic liberalization in China would lead to political liberalization. That has not happened.

I very much agree with you.

I would propose to review that very, very quickly.

The president-elect has been very clear that our charge would be to put democracy and human rights back at the center of American foreign policy.

We can outcompete China--and remind the world that a government of the people, by the people, can deliver for its people.

That would be my judgment as well.

The JCPOA... was succeeding on its own terms in blocking Iran's pathways to producing fissile material.

An Iran with a nuclear weapon or on the threshold of having one... would be an Iran that is even more dangerous.

Humility and confidence should be the flip sides of America's leadership coin.

We must restore Congress's traditional role as a partner in our foreign policy making.

The reality is that the world doesn't organize itself.

A nation that leads 'not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example.'

It makes our country weaker. President-elect Biden believes, and I share his conviction, that no foreign policy can be sustained without the informed consent of the American people.

I believe that humility and confidence should be the flip sides of America's leadership coin.

When we are not engaged, when we are not leading, then one of two things is likely to happen.

American leadership still matters. The reality is the world simply does not organize itself.