James E. Risch

When it comes to Iran, both sides of the aisle agree on more than they disagree.

I think it is a smart approach to target Iran's illegal oil smuggling to China.

The Iranian people are disillusioned and at a breaking point.

This is a failure of American policy that will have consequences for years to come.

We must demonstrate American leadership.

It is clear the Iranian regime doubts Biden's will to impose serious costs. It is time to do things differently.

We must enforce existing Iran sanctions to include stopping Chinese purchase of Iranian oil, and we must permanently freeze Iranian assets around the world.

It is time to change course.

At the beginning of the Biden administration the President's Iran policy was abundantly clear and that was an attempt to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal regardless of the cost.

Iran is an enduring national security challenge and requires a serious policy that uses all instruments of national power.

The Administration chose engagement and appeasement over containment and isolation.

The Russians are notorious that when they do get caught red-handed, whatever they are doing, they just lie about it.

I think we are at a point on the planet where countries are deciding which club they are going to belong to.

Most Americans are not familiar with the term transnational repression.

Whenever you talk about voluntary, anybody here think that China or Russia are going to voluntarily comply with any international norms when they think it is in their best interest to do otherwise?

You got a country like Russia that cannot even obey the simplest mandate of the United Nations; not to abuse one of your neighbors.

It is just stunning that they have no boundaries. They are--it is just the Wild West out there.

If you think back probably some decades ago, some congressional committee was holding a hearing just like this saying, what are we going to do about this new thing called the internets, as George Bush called it.

The ongoing wars in Europe and the Middle East are reminders of the threats and instability that define the era of strategic competition in which we live.

The United States and our allies must lead the world in developing the transformational technologies and the standards that govern them.

AI-powered cyber attacks could overwhelm our defenses by rapidly identifying our vulnerabilities and exploiting them.

To respond to both the opportunities and the threats posed by new AI-driven technologies, the State Department should focus on two areas.

You have got to escalate. If you do not escalate, you are going to lose.

This thing cannot go on forever. There is no question about it. Patience will wear thin and it is not a good situation.

President Putin sees Hamas as a way to distract us and to weaken the coalition that we have built against him.