With regard to American leadership being renewed and reasserted because to lead in the world, we have to renew our leadership; we have to reassert our leadership.

I think it is implicit that we would not be where we are today had two things--we had not failed to do two things.

I think trade is important. It is a weapon that we have, to use a soft-power weapon to have friends and help the United States of America.

Accountability to the American taxpayer is a core priority for this administration, and evaluations are critical to holding ourselves accountable.

Every time they do good things, they turn around and appoint somebody like Iran the head of the Human Relations Council or Committee and do something that is just unfathomable consideration-wise.

We cannot turn our back on the least fortunate in this world, those that are as oppressed as the people in Darfur because somebody somehow has got to come to their aid.

my plea to all of you is to help elevate the influence and the role of the United States in the operation of the United Nations.

I have never known a better public servant, a better member of Congress.

Kagame has had a few stumps along the way, but he has done a fantastic job as president of that country.

We did some breakthroughs in the compliance area that we had never done in any treaty before.

North Korea and the JCPOA are the two formidable challenges we have to meet in the future.

I think you are exactly correct. I think Senator Nunn and Senator Lugar would have said the same thing were they sitting in this room today.