Marco Rubio

[Trump] has talked about that as being a real option, and now, obviously, we’ve been engaging with the Senate in particular over the last week on what that bill will look like.

We need to see a road map moving forward about how this conflict can conclude.

We hope that can change.

It’s important to note that since January of this year, as an example just to give you, on the Russian side, they’ve lost 100,000 soldiers – dead – not injured – dead.

These are relationships and partnerships that we intend to continue to build on without seeking the approval or the permission of any other actor in the region of the world.

Distraction is impossible, because it is our strong view and the reality that this century and the story of next 50 years will largely be written here in this region.

The Indo Pacific, the region, remains a focal point of U.S. foreign policy.

I think it’s a new and a different approach.

When you reorganize the State Department, there were certain bureaus we wanted to empower, the regional bureaus, and there were certain bureaus, these functional bureaus, that were closed.

We went very specifically through and reorganized the State Department.

I’m proud of the way the Trump administration had undertaken a reorganization that was arguably the most deliberate way of anyone that’s done one.

The reduction of force is a consequence of the reorg. It’s not a consequence of trying to get rid of people.

I don’t want to overpromise

We need to see a roadmap moving forward about how this conflict can conclude.

I think it's a new and a different approach.

Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt (International Criminal Court) action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and…

Albanese was being sanctioned “for her illegitimate and shameful efforts”

We’re closer than we’ve been in quite a while to a ceasefire

I think we're closer, and I think perhaps we're closer than we've been in quite a while, and we're hopeful.

We’ve been engaging with the Senate in particular over the last week on what that bill will look like.

Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated.

The United States will continue to take whatever actions we deem necessary to respond to lawfare and protect our sovereignty and that of our allies.

Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated.

Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt [ICC] action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.

We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense.