Political Quotes

If we create a precedent in the Middle East where a nation-state can decide that they are going to control an international waterway and, if you don't pay them, blow up your ships, we have created a very dangerous precedent.

A missile got through. We shot down almost all the missiles. One leaked through … it's heartbreaking."

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

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.