"I am hopeful you will join me today and encourage the continuation of the special envoy role following your departure to Baku."
"We have to play an important role in mediating that effort."
"Our enthusiasm in the United States obviously is for a unified Iraq."
"I am very pleased the President has nominated a man whose substantive knowledge, experience, and respected leadership are so well suited to this posting."
"Not only is it in Poland's national interests. It is in all of our interests to really promote a much greater diversity of energy sources."
"Among the most important interests is United States support for a free and fair electoral process leading up to national elections in 2013."
"We cannot stand by and watch one more nation join the ranks of countries where their leadership are deliberately undermining the institutions of democracy and while we do nothing about it."
"What I wonder is just as further observation, many of the people most celebrated in the Arab Spring were young people demonstrating in the squares, using Twitter and other forms of social media."
"Well, I thank you for that expert testimony based on years of working through those problems."
"Thanks, Mr. Chairman."
"I would like to commend your efforts to advance many critical initiatives as the special envoy for Eurasian energy."