I am very gratified that the President has nominated someone with all of those talents to such an important position.

The only way to pursue that is through direct negotiations; and that a vote in the United Nations, even though its legality may have some question, a vote within the United Nations would be counterproductive to that end.

This is a gross violation of human rights.

When we fail to act, the world all too often is silent as well.

I never doubted his love for our country and he never doubted mine either privately or publicly.

We need every dollar at home.

I join you in presenting to the committee, Ambassador Sherman, strongly support her confirmation.

I think the building of public-private partnerships will be quite crucial.

The money we spend abroad is not a gift to foreign nations. It is an investment in our national security.

We have to find the right balance.

We cannot afford to be the world's first responder whenever a crisis arises--we need strong multilateral partners who can help us shoulder this burden.

I am grateful for your friendship, your support, and for your leadership and service to all of us who are Marylanders--and Americans.

The Obama administration has made the point over and over again that we have a national security budget.

North Korea must keep its commitments that it made in 2005 to really move forward to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

The United States has a security budget that includes not only the Department of Defense, but our civilian efforts of diplomacy within the State Department.

We are looking at the new challenges that we have, both in terms not of what we alone can do, but what we can do with others.

We are inexorably connected to the world.

It is her unique ability to understand the world, but understand the people of the United States of America that she serves.