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

Russia is committing aggression not only against Ukraine but against the principles at the heart of the United Nations Charter--sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence--that are the building blocks for global peace and security.

There is no doubt that the people of Gaza--children, women, men--are experiencing an acute humanitarian crisis.

I am grateful for Tom Perriello and the President's appointment of a Special Envoy.

We are also asking Congress to fully fund the State Department's educational and cultural exchanges.

U.S. leadership is needed to address humanitarian crises elsewhere around the world including in Sudan and Haiti, where millions have been displaced and many killed, and to address global issues that no country can solve alone, including…

Haiti has been teetering on the precipice of all out crisis and becoming a failed state.

Given the horrible acts that he engaged in both as a judge and as president, to the extent he can no longer engage in them, yes, the Iranian people are probably better off.

The extremely wrongheaded decision by the ICC prosecutor yesterday... complicates the prospects for getting such an agreement.

We have managed to move to a better trajectory politically to get back to a clearly mandated democratic government.

In the Middle East, we are standing with Israel and its efforts to ensure that what happened on October 7 never happens again as we do everything we can to bring an end to the terrible human suffering in Gaza and prevent the conflict from…

We are the lead provider of emergency food assistance to people around the world.

There is no question that countries around the world prefer to work with us.

Because of the actions we have taken the United States is stronger economically, diplomatically, and militarily than we were 3 years ago.

We have done and we will continue to do everything we can to, if we can do it, develop the information and share the information.

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

The People's Republic of China is pursuing military, economic, and geopolitical preeminence, challenging our vision for a free, open, secure, and prosperous international order.

We can use these instruments to facilitate the private sector playing the role.

That is, again, totally misleading and wrong.

Your State Department on the morning of October 7 sent out a tweet telling Israel not to engage in military retaliation.

We will make, as we have, other arrangements in other places to make sure that we can conduct the necessary missions to ensure our security.

I believe that we can bring much more to the table than the Russians can.

That statement is incorrect.

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

That is an enormous return on our investment and essential for competing with China around the world.