Political Quotes

The United States is always committed to diplomacy. We are open-minded and always willing to engage in negotiated settlements of differences.

They don’t seem yet to realize that they have to make a deal or they’re going to face catastrophic collapse of their economy.

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.