What would you do in Afghanistan?

the United States needs to deal very firmly, with strength and a lot of verification with other countries in the world.

I appreciate Senators Menendez and Kerry's efforts to allow me to be briefed on the background summary.

I don't think there's much, if any, disagreement in this room that not only will the administration demand results from the U.N. and from the administration itself, but this committee will demand results.

We are not going to have economic and political freedom where no religious freedom exists.

The White House continually denied reasonable requests from Senators on this side of the aisle for access to information.

Last year, every Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted against moving this nomination forward.

Are you willing to cut funding for these missions where women and children have been abused?

The United States should examine these cuts and take similar actions.

I feel very good about your nomination.

Programs that duplicate each other, and outdated mandates, must be streamlined, eliminated, and merged.

The people who fomented change in Egypt, in Libya and Yemen, throughout many parts of the world back during the fall of the Soviet Union, did not do so to live under another dictatorship.

Americans end up paying for programs that do not align with our national security and foreign policy objectives.

The United Nations has been unacceptably slow to reform.

U.N. peacekeeping missions must have more accountability--much more.

I believe American taxpayers deserve more accountability for their dollars.

So I think the United States is at its best when we live our values and live our interests, try to influence others to meet our national security priorities, but not do so in a way that tries to impose upon other people what we believe.

clarity of purpose is very important for us.