"It is not about the rocks. It is about the rules."
"They have demonstrated that if the ruling goes against them, they will not feel it binding on them."
"The Communist Party of China is retreating into the last refuge of scoundrels and illegitimate governments, and that is exaggerated nationalism."
"one way to defend Taiwan would be to spend a few hundred billion dollars on more naval assets; but there is something else that would be just as effective, probably more effective, and that is with a ..."
"We firmly believe that it is in the United States' interests to ratify, and we expect all parties to the Convention to fulfill their obligations under it."
"You can be sure they will accept it if they happen to win."
"Their argument is that some other government that they don't recognize once drew a line claiming something."
"What could we possibly lose by joining UNCLOS?"
"We should at a minimum not license the sale of the aircraft knowing that they are going to go to an airline that is likely to use them to support terrorism."
"We've got a lot of dead Americans as a result of this catch and release program."
"The prior administration did release more terrorists than the current administration."