My view is they are moving away from us as opposed to us moving away from them.

I think that all of you have underestimated the difficulty that this Turkey situation is causing us and going to cause us with NATO.

I think that obviously the sanctions have two purposes. One is a direct effect to inflict pain, but the real objective is to change conduct.

as you know, late last year, Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I supported this legislation because of its potential to spur investment, stimulate…

Who makes the determination as to who's a good actor and a bad actor? That's what I really, really struggle with.

But yet, if you took one of those pieces, any one of them individually, and looked at it and said, we just discovered who's doing this, it's John Doe in East Overshoe, New Jersey, there's nothing illegal about it.

I think the takeaway from this, after listening to all of this, is something that's troubled me from the beginning and that is how difficult this is.

The President is to be commended for underscoring this, as only he can do in his unique way.

NATO is the most successful military alliance in the history of the world.

The President made a wise decision appointing you as Secretary of State, and you are acquitting yourself very well here today.

It is unfortunate that our friends and allies' feathers were ruffled a little bit just because we said they were not paying their bills.

Anybody who thinks this is not important just needs to look back some years ago when the Chinese and the Japanese had a spat and the Chinese just flat cut off Japan's access to this material.