I believe that the goal is, at this point, not just to send Assad a message, but to send Russia and Iran a message.

I will tell you that it is something that we took on the second we got there.

I think you are dealing with a leader who is paranoid.

What we have seen in the U.N. in the past is, if there was a challenging area, they thought they would just throw more troops at it.

We care about all of them.

North Korea is building a nuclear weapon. It is very dangerous.

I called an emergency Security Council meeting on Venezuela to get the Security Council to engage on this issue.

As of last week, we were dealing with budget negotiations at the U.N., and the U.N. peacekeeping budget we were able to negotiate down $.5 billion already.

the administration did not fund UNFPA because we know that the UNFPA has associations with a Chinese company that does forced sterilization.

If you are a country that is supplying or supporting North Korea, we will call you on it.

there are troop-contributing countries that see this as a moneymaker, and they are not holding their end of the deal.

America is the greatest country in the world. We don't have to make it better.

I did put everyone on notice that the U.S. saw that as a kick in the gut, and that it was something that really put a dark cloud over the U.N.

The U.S. is a leader and needs to continue being a leader on so many of these issues.

They all understand that we expect to find value in the U.N.

I think that--I really do want to be a conduit between Congress and the President.

we asked that that be repealed or fundamentally altered.

Yes, we are. We are working with the Secretary-General on that, and, yes, we are keeping famines at the forefront.