Antony Blinken

what you think you're signing up for is not the reality.

military efforts alone are insufficient.

What we are doing, instead, is trying to identify, elevate, and build the capacity of local credible voices.

we must address the ideology and tactics these groups employ to attract new recruits.

The challenge of actually moving from...liberating territory to then stabilizing it...is where the challenge really comes in.

We have to find ways to create what amounts to a win-win solution, that is, the host communities have to benefit along with the refugees.

In the absence of creating space in their society for people to express their views, to associate freely, and to come together, they are going to sow the seeds of long-term instability.

I think it varies very much program to program, sector to sector. It would be hard to rank order, I think, countries across the board.

Our ultimate success in the fight against violent extremism will be determined by our ability to hold fast to the very values that terrorists oppose: our capacity for reason, for wisdom, and for compassion.

The multi-sector programming is vitally important. We have to have these interconnections, and that's exactly what we're trying to do.

we were not satisfied with the effort that we had going.

It is not the violence, because that's gone. It's two things: it's an absence of access to school and education for the kids, and it's a lack of access to employment, to jobs, for the parents.

Your leadership is helping to ensure that in their very acts of terror, violent extremists are precipitating exactly what they hope to destroy, a world a little bit more closely bound together in defense of dignity, justice, and peace.

The burden on Jordan, the burden on Lebanon, the burden on Turkey, as you saw firsthand, Mr. Chairman, is extraordinary.

we found that actually wasn't so effective. We were not the best messenger in this space.

We are at risk of creating a lost generation of children, and we know what that means.

We've been doubling and tripling our efforts in a number of ways.

We want to make sure that, in fact, what we're trying to do is really leverage our assistance in different ways.

Well, of course, if there is no deal Iran could rush to a nuclear capacity and a nuclear weapon tomorrow, which I imagine is exactly what would spark an arms race.

We will insist that the IAEA have the access it must have in order to do its job and to verify.

It is not a question of good faith.

Congress will eventually have to decide whether to lift U.S. sanctions.

At the end of the day, again, we have to deal with--and by the way, I should say we don't accept the proposition that they would get a nuclear weapon.

The administration's support for Israel is absolutely unshakable. We have done more for Israel's security over the last 6 years.

The only reason that they are there is in order to relieve some of that pressure.