Political Quotes

The United States, as I said earlier and I repeat again, stands with ASEAN, and we’re working together to strengthen our economies and our people through forward-looking collaboration.

If they’re serious, we’re serious. If they’re not, then we will do what is necessary to protect that, our interests, and also the interests of our allies.

What is at stake here is not simply the issue of what’s happening in the Straits of Hormuz. It’s a very fundamental principle about freedom of navigation.

If that is threatened, then I think the global economy is threatened, and the rules which have underpinned 150 years of international trade and commerce are also threatened, and that cannot be allowed to happen.