Antony Blinken actually said...

"That's who we are. That's what America represents to the world however imperfectly. Now, we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence."

"If you look two things, one, the budget and, you know, show me the money and I'll tell you what your priorities are, clearly, State Department is not their priority."

"We didn't wait, Anderson. First, couple things that are important, when this information first came to light late in the summer, we thought that the primary objective that Russia was pursuing was to a..."

"Well, look, we certainly didn't want to politicize things. And there was concern about being perceived as putting or thumbs on the scales."