Antony Blinken said...

In an era of renewed great power competition we must present the strongest possible offer.

I am not going to apologize to anyone for standing up for American workers and American companies.

We see, I think this committee sees, corruption as being one of the most poisonous things that undermines democracies.

We also see this democratic backsliding particularly in the Sahel, and that is where we have had these recent coups.