Marco Rubio

I do believe that it is important that we stay synchronized and aligned with our ally in South Korea...

I think it is important that we maintain those sanctions until we can come to the point where we believe that Kim Jong-un is serious about the negotiations.

The single most important thing that got him to the table and will keep him at the table is these sanctions, this pressure.

The maximum pressure campaign plan that was led by the State Department and the enforcement of U.N. sanctions, pretty harsh sanctions by many countries, including China.

I think it is a tremendous opportunity.

I do believe that there is the potential, sadly, for a much more violent open confrontation that--reminiscent of what we may have seen, some portions of the '80s.

I still think that, contrary to Venezuela, there is still time for Ortega and for his wife, the Vice President, to figure out a way to sort of call a new--real election and kind of transition to some form of retirement.

Here in Congress, there is a law called the NICA Act, which, unfortunately, has run into some procedural hurdles, but which, I believe, when voted on, would pass overwhelmingly.

I do think that, at some point, the administration--in fact, I know--is going to look very closely at using the Global Magnitsky Act and other options to go after individuals who have been violating human rights and are guilty of…

It is my view, and I think the view of many, that that government has lost legitimacy and, frankly, its ability to continue to govern under the conditions.

Ultimately, the decisionmaking authority on this issue rests with the Department of Homeland Security.

This is a manmade crisis. This is not a natural disaster.

We cannot allow people to continue to suffer and die.

It is incumbent upon the Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago... to get--to be into Venezuela to discuss the various problems that exist.

I do think the administration's approach to Venezuela has, quite frankly, been textbook.

Our goal in Cuba, ultimately, is the restoration of a democracy.

Nicaragua is a place that is not necessarily a model of democracy, but... the people of Nicaragua have begun to express how strongly they feel about the erosion of democracy there.

Cuba has not had democracy for a very long time. Venezuela has seen its democracy blatantly stolen.

There is a real challenge to democracy. We see the world increasingly being divided into a battle between autocracy and democracy.

As everyone knows, the Ranking Member has a deep interest in the western hemisphere, and many years of experience in defending democracy.

There are solutions and steps that can be taken and that we have called for, that the United States Government has called for that are simple steps of return to democracy, return to a respect for human rights, allow free and fair and…

Venezuela poses a very significant national security threat to our strongest ally in South America in Colombia.

The border between Colombia and Venezuela is ripe for mischief and for illegality.

It is indisputable--right--that the distribution of cocaine is assisted actively by elements in the Venezuelan Government.

It is my belief that, if confirmed, you will be the Ambassador to Colombia at a time in which cocaine is going to begin to compete with heroin and opiates as a headline issue in the United States.