All Quotes

Unless we have their active cooperation, I just don't think that we are going to get any real traction in this campaign.

At the end of the day, it is Afghans who need to be the agents, with our help, but the agents of their own liberation.

I think Senator Risch made a good point about the fact that an agreement like this could provide better opportunities.

I think certainly we should continue to negotiate and work in good faith with them, to help them accomplish what they want to, because what they want appears to be in the best interest of the United States also.

I think that--after this hearing and after my trip and what have you, I think all of us should compliment the UAE, No. 1, for being a friend of America in the region, being as open and transparent as they are, and including the United…

It seems to me it would be very, very naive for us to believe that if we just walked away from this, the UAE would abandon their efforts to do this.

I think everyone shares the objectives that Senator Feingold stated, and that is to prevent proliferation.

As I close out my time here, maybe both of you from State could comment on my view that we may be better off with the agreement, when it comes to proliferation, than we would be without the agreement with the UAE.

I mean, they are, in very good faith, wanting to do just what they're telling us they want to do, and that is develop, for the future and to meet their energy needs, this nuclear power.

The United States is well-poised to help

The agreement with the UAE could very well be a model used, not only in the region, but around the world, for the development of nuclear energy

I met with the sheikh in Dubai, and numerous government officials there, and I can't tell you how impressed I was with, not only the commitment, but the sincerity of the people in the UAE to pursue goals that are shared both by the UAE and…

I would argue that we should nominate a United States Ambassador to Burma.

I believe we also should, by the way, change the name from Burma to Myanmar.

I think we need to take a staged approach--'If you do A, we will do B.'

We need to especially help the minority areas because the minority areas have been the most deprived.

Increased offshore energy production would support 1.2 million jobs annually.

Natural gas is clean burning and is domestically abundant.