You don't double their reserves, you don't permit visits for the CDR.

If you are confirmed, you'll serve the United States and will be called upon to implement the policies of the U.S. Government.

Access to the ballot is a key part of the democratic process, and this makes Russia's parliamentary elections less competitive than they could be.

We were very disappointed, for instance, when Russia vetoed the resolution on Syria last week at the U.N. Security Council.

I think we have made progress on that.

A commitment to sustaining democracy, supporting indigenous efforts to expand civil society and enhancing respect for human rights are issues I feel passionately about.

He's a hostage. They took him particularly because he is, in essence, a hostage.

Today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considers four nominations.

The administration has expressed its strong disappointment both publicly and privately in meetings with senior Russian officials.

We think we have made real progress in terms of having Russia be part of the international community, being part of the P5+1 as opposed to being on the outside.

The proposition that we have tried to make to President Medvedev and other Russian Government officials is that we want to make our bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia more important geopolitically to Moscow and…

The President has said that the achievement of a full, frank, and just acknowledgement of the facts of what occurred in 1915 is in all our interests.

if we are going to spend $250 million on a plant that at the end of the day, for whatever reason, is operational, but not being operated, I question the long-term thinking of our investment decisions in terms of assistance.

Do you think helping a regime that is oppressive of its people; that violates every principle that not only we, as Americans, have, but the International Charter has; that doubling--doubling--its reserves to $5.7 billion, which only gets…

President Obama has recognized and deplored the horrific events that took place in the waning days of the Ottoman empire

If we cannot accept the past, we cannot move forward.

This is questions of territory, identity, and a concern of those who have aspirations of getting territory.

This was an atrocity that we and the world must never forget, so that it is never repeated.