"The United States has been the dominant power in the Middle East for decades."
"Now, that is just good diplomacy because China is doing that at scale."
"The ability to create a more diverse permanent staffing pipeline can take some time, but you can very quickly make sure that we have a diverse set of voices representing the United States abroad."
"One of the recommendations that we made as part of that report was to revitalize the Office of Subnational Diplomacy at the Department of State."
"I think this bill will pass. I think this bill will get more than 60 votes in the United States Senate. And I hope that we bring it up for a vote very quickly."
"The Russians were obstructionist, as they always have been."
"It is really hard in one hearing to categorize all the ways in which the Russians are using starvation as a deliberate tactic, not just in Ukraine, but all over the world."
"the ceasefire has to be a mechanism to a political dialogue that eventually gets a return of the Yemeni Government to the Yemeni people."
"Every single year the Saudis, and the Emiratis in particular, make these big, public pledges as to how much they are going to support food assistance and humanitarian aid in Yemen, and then every sing..."
"There is only one reason for that, and that is Russia's decision to try to use starvation as a tool to benefit Bashar al-Assad."
"It is proof that this myth perpetuated on the country for 30 years, that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is good guys with a gun was a gun industry fiction created to sell more weapons."