Marco Rubio: “Free speech is essential to the American way of life — a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority.”

These conflicts around the world are starting to crash into each other, and they’re having an impact not just on global oil and diesel prices but on economies as well.

What we want to accomplish at this meeting this week will put our countries further down the path of long-term prosperity and security.

The diesel that Putin was going to sell, they were (going to) make it available to the global market one way or the other. The only difference is how much of it the United States was going to get.

We view the – the United States views the relationship between Uzbekistan and Central Asia as paramount to our national security and to our economic prosperity.