U.S. Senate

Daniel Ortega’s declaration that under his family’s dictatorship Nicaragua will never again hold elections lays bare their true authoritarian nature.

The United States, as I said earlier and I repeat again, stands with ASEAN, and we’re working together to strengthen our economies and our people through forward-looking collaboration.

The future and the story of the 21st century will be written in this region and by how events unfold here.

Our partnership with each of your countries and the region at large, it’s in the national interest of the United States, and we will never abandon it.

What is at stake here is not simply the issue of what’s happening in the Straits of Hormuz. It’s a very fundamental principle about freedom of navigation.

If they’re serious, we’re serious. If they’re not, then we will do what is necessary to protect that, our interests, and also the interests of our allies.

The United States is always committed to diplomacy. We are open-minded and always willing to engage in negotiated settlements of differences.

And so we’re glad to be with you today and to reaffirm that relationship and our commitment to the U.S. and Philippines’ relationship.

Well, thank you for welcoming me, first of all, and to congratulate you on the great job hosting this conference, which, in addition to being so critically important for the region, provides us the opportunity to interact with so many…

My 'Protect Our Polls Act' is designed to block the military from being deployed to polling sites during the midterms without congressional approval.

Iran retains veto power over the critical waterway through drones, mines, and fast boats.

Well, does he want to get confirmed or not?

Those are the issues we’re continuing to discuss with the administration to see whether we can get a modification of the settlement agreement.

President Trump’s self-celebrating maneuvers are authoritarian actions worthy of dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un.

I spoke with Mullin last night and asked him to halt all nonurgent vehicle stops by ICE.

I mean, it’s not great to wake up one morning and to find out the president wants you hanged.

Why are you asking the American people to absorb the cost of a war they don’t support?

You’re asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can’t feed their families, and I don’t know how this administration intends to defend those decisions to the American people.

We shouldn't be giving money to people who lied to us.

This level of dishonesty, I think, needs to be exposed.

I think it's going to be really important that we figure out a path forward to get a bipartisan agreement to fund the government that will keep government open and ensure that government employees are getting paid.

If these consequences didn't exist, then today we would be living in a world where a significant percentage of the energy supply in this region and 20% of the world's energy supply is being held hostage by a rogue regime.

When those commitments are not kept, which is what’s happened in this particular case, then there will be consequences. And that has to happen.

The United States remains open and willing to engage in positive negotiations and talks so long as the commitments that are made are kept.