"The President ordered a very daring and very well-executed rescue operation when on the only occasion we had, what we thought was fresh and we hoped actionable intelligence about the whereabouts of Jim Foley and the other hostages."
"This was a young man who volunteered to serve his country in uniform at a time of war. That is in itself a very honorable thing."
"He is as all Americans, innocent until proven guilty. He is now being tried in the court of public opinion after having gone through enormously traumatic five years of captivity."
"Our sanctions on Iran's human rights abusers will continue and so will our support for the fundamental rights of all Iranians."
"the council's inaction on Syria is a moral and strategic disgrace that history will judge harshly."
"Israel's legitimacy should be beyond dispute, and its security must be beyond doubt."
"What this began as, it was a spontaneous, not a premeditated response to what transpired in Cairo."
"Today I made the decision that it was the best thing for our country, for the American people that I not continue to be considered by the president for nomination as secretary of state because I didn'..."
"Today, I made the decision that it was the best thing for our country, for the American people that I not continue to be considered by the president for nomination as secretary of state because I didn..."
"The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, warned that little will change in the Palestinian territories after this vote."
"A big week on Capitol Hill for the United Nations. Ambassador Susan Rice, she is about to face her toughest critics on the Benghazi Consulate attacks."