Antony Blinken

The budget will sustain our security, economic, energy, and humanitarian support for Ukraine to ensure that President Putin's war remains a strategic failure.

The President's FY24 budget request for the State Department and USAID meet this moment head on.

We meet at an inflection point. The post-Cold War world is over, and there is an intense competition underway.

Keeping our promises to those who served with us remains an unwavering priority.

Xi's visit shows China's intent to provide diplomatic cover for alleged Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

China can't have it both ways. It can't be putting itself out as a force for peace in public, while it, one way or another, continues to fuel the flames of this fire that Vladimir Putin started.

We see China considering this; we have not seen them cross that line.

At every step along the way, we've said that fundamentally these questions about Ukraine, about its future, belong to the Ukrainians. These are their decisions. And we're determined to support them in their efforts to uphold their…

We are very concerned that China’s considering providing lethal support to Russia in its aggression against Ukraine.

It's complicated, it's consequential and we need to manage it responsibly.

I told him quite simply that that was unacceptable and can never happen again.

We intend to compete very vigorously, and we've taken important steps over the last couple of years to invest in ourselves so that we compete effectively.

The presence of this surveillance balloon over the United States, in our skies, is a clear violation of our sovereignty, a clear violation of international law and clearly unacceptable.

China's decision, to fly a surveillance balloon, over the continental United States, is both unacceptable and irresponsible. That's what this is about. It's a violation of our sovereignty. It's a violation of international law.

We concluded that conditions were not conducive, for a constructive visit, at this time.

I made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law. That it's an irresponsible act and that the PRC's decision to take this action on the eve of my…

Any country that has its airspace violated and this way, I think would respond similarly. And I can only imagine what the reaction would be in China if they were on the other end.

if Russia stops fighting this war ends today, but if Ukraine stops fighting Ukraine ends.

This was not a choice of which American to bring home. The choice was one or none.

I wholeheartedly wish that we could have brought Paul home, today, on the same plane, as Brittney.

This is about them, and it's up to them.

There's always value in diplomacy, if the parties in question and, in this case, Russia are actually interested in meaningful diplomacy.

That's up to the Iranian people. This is about them.

My determination is, one way or another, as long as it takes to get people home.

This is about them. It's not about us.