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Our leadership must be rooted in our core values: support for democracy, respect for universal human rights, and the promotion of peace and security.

To me, that represents the progress and the promise of America.

China is a strategic competitor and poses challenges to our security, and to our prosperity, and to our values.

When America shows up, when we are consistent and persistent, when we exert our influence in accordance to our values, the United Nations can be an indispensable institution for advancing peace, security, and our collective well-being.

I am deeply honored to appear before you all as President Biden's nominee to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

We have seen -- and it`s been plain for all Americans on their television sets -- just how serious a problem we face from nationalists and white supremacists. As President Biden has made clear, advancing equity is everybody`s job.

The president was pushing the Justice Department to the point of saying he was going to replace the acting attorney general with one of the subordinates who would do his business and interfere with the Georgia election.

I think there was a moment of reckoning.

If impeachment isn`t for this, what`s it for?

That`s breathtaking. That`s Putin-esque.

Joe Biden intends to sign about a dozen executive orders on day one of his inauguration.

President Biden ran on addressing four great crises, COVID, the economy, systemic racism and the climate crisis.

We like Congress to act as quickly as possible. We understand Congress is going to hold hearings. They’re going to look at this. They’re going to make up their own minds. That’s the way the process should work. But we certainly want…

We think some of the things President Trump did to get tougher on China were overdue in terms of the mindset.

President Biden is not going to allow Iran to acquire nuclear capabilities, but we’re going to be consulting widely before we move forward on that.

Senator Schumer has made it clear he’s going to make sure the Senate does all of its business. That’s its constitutional obligations under impeachment, constitutional obligations to consent and national obligation to respond to the COVID…

With regard to getting people vaccinated, the Trump administration had the vaccine for 40 days and got about 11 million people vaccinated.

It’s just a very, very exciting time. I’m just so honored and thrilled to be part of what Joe Biden has led us to and be part of this effort going forward.