Dick Lugar

We are strongly involved in efforts to tackle corruption, to promote trade, education, you name it.

This is a partnership that has not received enough attention for decades.

I believe we are entering a period of renaissance with the Philippines.

The world cannot afford a crisis in Asia that would have untold consequences for our economy, for the economies of Asia and Europe and the rest of the world.

Since 2010, the United States repeatedly stated at ASEAN forums and elsewhere that freedom of navigation and peaceful settlement of disputes in the South China Sea is a U.S. interest.

today I wish to recognize the extraordinary career achievements of Richard F. Grimmett, specialist in international security with the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service, who is retiring on…

we should recognize that our ability to manufacture a predictable outcome of this crisis is extremely limited.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I join you in welcoming our distinguished witnesses.

Have you made any recommendations for legislative reform, amendments that we ought to be offering here as legislators that would be helpful to you?

I would like to ask sort of the basic question we perhaps began with and that is the idea that we do have a foreign policy with regard to Syria right now and that is that Assad must go.

Ecuador has failed to comply with the court ordered awards promulgated by the BIT Tribunal.

what a pleasure it is to be with my colleague Pat Leahy on this very special day. It was a great coincidence that the 13,000th vote and the 14,000th vote should occur this afternoon, but what a joyous moment to be with my friend on this…

last week heads of state, key policymakers, and foreign aid implementers met in Washington to examine ``Frontiers in Development.'' It was my pleasure to provide the conference keynote address Monday in which I pressed for greater…

It does raise the points which you have made that it is not really clear just in terms of law enforcement.

The Commander in Chief, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, and individual combatant commanders are asking the Senate to give its advice and consent to the Law of the Sea Convention.

As seven CNOs wrote in a joint letter back in 1998, 'there are no downsides to this treaty--it contains expansive terms, which we use to maintain forward presence and preserve U.S. maritime superiority.'

Our resource extractors are telling us that if we want them to move forward with scale development of ocean floor resources that could contribute significantly to United States energy security and create jobs, we need to ratify the Law of…

This morning the Foreign Relations Committee heard unequivocal testimony from our uniformed military leadership in support of the Law of the Sea Convention.

Americans who are involved in the oceans professionally on a daily basis... want this Convention ratified.

Consequently, the United States cannot insulate itself from the Convention merely by declining to ratify.

I am concerned, Secretary Rumsfeld, about a recommendation for United States businesses to have to joint venture with another country to exploit our resources or what might be our resources.

I found the testimony very important just in terms of the historical record of the evolution of this issue before previous administrations and the Congress.

By definition of these partnerships, we already divide up the profits, leaving aside the royalties in the sixth year.

Each of you knows that we got briefings here about the so-called pivot of our national defense toward the South China Sea, toward the Pacific.

The only way we are going to do this in today's world is to engage in alliances and partnerships.