It is my sincerest hope that, in combination with the countries that each of you, if confirmed, will be serving, along with the other four G5 nations in the hemisphere, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, and Argentina, we can pursue a way forward…

I am confident that the largest percentage of them live in New Jersey and New York and, hence, they are my neighbors and some of my closest friends.

We have raised this repeatedly with Canada.

If confirmed, this will be one of my top priorities.

We encourage Iran, and all of Afghanistan's neighbors, to fully support the Afghan Government and to put pressure on the Taliban to enter peace talks.

If confirmed, do you commit to supporting the Anti-Terrorism Act statute as written by Congress?

The Human Rights Commission is extremely important. The most important thing is that it is autonomous.

an economic opening towards a totalitarian state in and of itself will not guarantee a political opening.

the fact that it is not full of Senators is actually a good sign.

I believe the Cuban people are deserving of freedom and democracy just like the people in the Dominican Republic have...

It has been very frustrating to a lot of people to see 20 members representing I think it is like 90 percent of the GDP of the western hemisphere vote to condemn what has happened in Venezuela.

In Venezuela, the erosion and now cancellation of democracy and freedom is truly tragic and catastrophic and has led to a humanitarian disaster.