Marco Rubio

If Iran were to toll the strait there would be nothing stopping any other country near a waterway from following suit 'and then we’re going to have chaos.'

That will never be an acceptable condition of any deal.

You can call it a toll, you can call it a fee, whatever you want to call it — it’s a game of semantics.

The defense department would help search and rescue teams deploy to the affected region after Venezuela’s main gateway was badly damaged.

Had there been an agreement, there would have been an end to the war, and that’s been the fundamental problem.

We are prepared to step forward and play a constructive role, if there’s one for us to play, in bringing the parties together and bringing that war to an end.

The United States, while committed to this process, wants to make — will make sure that none of the agreements that are made, none of the things that are agreed to will in any way be counter to the interest of any of the nations…

What we’re interested in is not their press conferences. What we’re interested in is whether or not ships are moving.

Any time an incident happens, we're not taking anybody else's word for it.

I have a whole-of-government response. It'll be big; it'll be fast; and it'll be effective.

If, on the other hand, this rhetoric is backed up by actual ships being threatened and ships are not moving, that's a violation of the agreement, and we're going to have a problem with it.

If ships are moving as they should be moving, then that's what we're going to judge, and that's what we're going to react to.

There is no part in this deal that's undertaken that in any way undermines the security, the stability or the prosperity of any of our partners in the Gulf region.

If that stops, then we're going to have a problem.

There was a proposal in Alaska, but there was no agreement. If there had been an agreement, we would have had an end of the war.

Partners and allies don’t undermine one another.

We want to ensure that any decisions that are made throughout this negotiating process, the interests of our partners and our allies in the region are always taken into account.

Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, which is at the core purpose of why this all started in the first place.

The Straits of Hormuz are international waters. International waterways do not belong to any nation-state.

We want a deal that’s good. We want that’s real. We want a deal that’s verifiable and we want a deal that’s adhered to.

We’ve already stood up our disaster response teams at the Department of State and our humanitarian efforts. It’s something we did very well in Jamaica, after that storm, and it’s something we’re really prepared to do now.

We’re already deploying search and rescue teams from Fairfax County, Virginia, and Los Angeles. There will be some others we’ll add. That’s their most immediate need right now, is search and rescue efforts- they have much of collapsed…

Our hearts are with all those who have lost loved ones, those injured, and the courageous rescue workers working tirelessly in the aftermath.

We're going to be completely aligned with our partners in the Gulf.

While we want a deal, we don't want a deal at any price.