the cost of doing that is that it provides hard currency to the regime

I would argue that we ought to continue to use our voices and our votes.

It's hard to find any examples of things that we prevented from happening.

Make no mistake: We, as the U.S. Government, consider Hamas a terrorist organization.

The UAE sits at a strategic location in the Persian Gulf and has taken an active role in the region during the unprecedented period of political change that we're living through today.

What happens in the Western Hemisphere is of critical importance to our future.

We are facing, as you all well know, fiscal constraints and a great debate going on in this city about what America should be spending money on, particularly when it comes to foreign aid and foreign programs.

our real goal there is to ultimately have Cuba become a democracy

You have a government there that's conducting an all-out assault on the constitutional order and on the independence of government institutions.

The most basic American value, the right to democratic representation, is at stake in Syria.

I am concerned about a trend toward autocracy that threatens many nations in the hemisphere.

Gang activity is a threat to U.S. national security, and so working to reverse its growth would be one of my priorities.

expanding our economic relationship can help Honduras develop and grow while creating jobs in the United States.

So we've already conceded, the administration has, that there's a price to be paid, that we recognize that these trips are providing hard currency for a repressive regime.

President Obama recently described those efforts as purely symbolic, and I think he also used the word 'failure'...

the concept that you have to control where the dust goes when you're harvesting or getting a field ready to plant is astounding to them, and it is to me.

I am concerned, as the discussion on the Senate floor has indicated this week that many are, that the EPA not use its regulating authority to do what I believe legislatively would never happen now with cap and trade.

I want to return to an issue that you addressed briefly with Senator Lugar...