It has been going on forever. There is nothing good that is going to come out of our involvement.

First, let me join with Senator Young in recommending that you play a forceful role at the DFC with respect to increasing their capability to be able to finance projects abroad.

I hope there will be sane voices and I hope you will be one of those.

The risk tolerance in State is fundamentally different than the risk tolerance we have in the Department of Defense, and I think that is a mistake.

I hope that when you are confirmed you will see the value of the GEC and fund it properly...

The European Union never recognized Guaido. Individual member states of the European Union recognized Guaido.

I believe we can be working on Iran's malign influence at the same time that we are having these conversations about the nuclear problem.

I think the Maximum Pressure campaign was built on a fantasy, this idea that we could have a comprehensive negotiation where the Iranians would come to the table on everything all at once.

I think there is an argument to be made that in this case the sanctions may have, ultimately, accrued to the benefit of Maduro to the detriment of Venezuelan citizens.

If confirmed, I will pursue tight interagency coordination to support Ukraine's chosen Euro-Atlantic path...

the United States put in less money this year than we did last year, which is not exactly helping the situation.

The President of the National Assembly, in the absence of the President or a legitimate president, ultimately is recognized as the interim president of Venezuela.

We, I believe, should do what we need to do to help defend Saudi Arabia against aggression directed at Saudi Arabia including from Yemen and from the Houthis.

It does not make sense to me, given the threats presented in the United States today that we have more military band members than we do diplomats.

He wants to disempower that nation economically and politically so that eventually they just give up and hand the keys back to a Kremlin-friendly government.

We will review the entirety of the relationship to make sure that as it stands it is advancing the interests and is respectful of the values that we bring to that partnership.

How do we get the State Department out of its bunker?

Hubris is probably one of them, and so I appreciate your comment about humility.

This has been just a national security disaster for the United States.

If we are going to meet them on a playing field even strength then we need to reconcile----

We are not a perfect nation. We have been flawed from the beginning. We are always seeking perfection.

Part of the reason why it is important to remove the president is that it's pretty clear that he is orchestrating a cover-up of what happened on Wednesday.

If we don't do this accountability the right way, then I think we're just inviting for there to be a permanent insurrection in this country that will plague the Biden presidency for the next four years.

My sense of history is that civilizations that skipped the accountability phase after an attempted coup are those that are doomed to have that insurrection rise again.

If you had federal law enforcement standing in front of the cameras right now telling people how many folks have been arrested, what will happen to you if you come to Washington for the inauguration to try to disrupt it, that would be a…