James E. Risch

I think the problem is there is some people making the same mistake right now with China.

I think they have to be accounted for more directly.

I find it embarrassing. I think it is antithetical to our strategic interests.

I would say that politics is a tough game.

I do not like going to a country in which we sit down with the leader, and we do not have an ambassador there.

I always appreciate your understanding of these issues and frankness.

It is time for our Government to wake up to the real challenges China presents and start taking concrete action.

The Administration's record is dismal.

Aggressively targeting China should be the top priority in U.S. sanctions policy.

I find this preposterous.

The balance of power in the region continues to move in China's favor.

I believe President Salva Kiir, First Vice President Riek Machar, and other South Sudanese political leaders have collectively failed to meet the conditions for genuine and peaceful elections in South Sudan.

Transitional government leaders should act with urgency to create conditions for a genuine and peaceful electoral process.

I do not think they are doing themselves any favor by helping to feed the Russian war machine.

Whatever the solution, I am all in.

They want to participate in that.

In April you said China was the primary contributor to Russia's military complex.

Your characterization of it being shameful equivalence that they have engaged in yesterday is actually stunning.

I think we have to look at the appropriate steps to take to deal with, again, what is a profoundly wrongheaded decision.

We must stop blaming Israel and let Israel remove Hamas from Gaza. That is the only way to move forward.

We cannot use U.S. taxpayer dollars to support an open ended, poorly conceived mission in a country plagued by extreme gang violence and political instability without some kind of assurances that things are going to be different this time.

In Africa, we have had coups in seven countries in the last 3 years.

The Administration's policy is fatally flawed. Outreach and accommodation have failed, and the lack of any serious strategy has come home to roost.

Congress has asked for a Ukraine strategy, which I suspect will never be delivered.

By rejecting low carbon energy options like natural gas and pushing a green only approach the Administration is doing more to enable China than out compete it.