Marco Rubio: “Our nation more than any other was shaped by the idea that faith brought freedom.”

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.

We want to see this region continue to thrive into the 21st century as a hub of commercial diplomacy, because it is in our interest – because it is our interest from both an economic standpoint and from a security standpoint as well.

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.

The president wants to take the 60-day period of time to sort of analyse what imposing both sanctions and tariffs will mean to the global economy and even to the US economy.