We can use--they want to business with America. We need to use our assets and use that trade agreement to open more doors of opportunity for Africans but more doors of opportunity for Americans too.

I think maintaining a relationship with Pakistan is absolutely essential to your department, to the Secretary of State, to our entire country.

I hope you will lend America's weight and the influence that you have in that position any way you can to help the Hungarian people see to it that anti-Semitism is ruled out of Hungary and any other Eastern European country.

There is no place in the world that we are better prepared with manpower and investment and infrastructure than in South Korea.

one of our biggest challenges as a country--and we got lots of them, but certainly our debt and our deficit are both big problems.

when you get to $20 trillion, you are talking about real money, as Everett Dirksen said a few years ago in Washington.

Africa is the continent of the 21st century for the United States in many ways.

I do not think suspending a temporary exercise in any way diminishes our ability to continue to do everything we have promised to do.

I think your role can be essential because the State Department and the soft power of our country is still the biggest strength we have got if we have a strong military backing.

If confirmed, I commit to partnering with the people of the Middle East and North Africa to help them on that journey to self-reliance.

We are soon getting ready to open our embassy in Jerusalem, which is a huge issue for the Jewish people.

I really appreciate your statement in your opening remarks about being committed to anti-Semitism and seeing to it we do everything we can to address it.