Political Quotes

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.

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.

We could be dragged before an international court, tried by judges from random countries across the globe.

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.