"The strategy that President Obama adopted after very serious consideration... was not a good position to find the United States of America in."
"I sense a drift with regard to the Afghanistan situation, with regard to Pakistan."
"We are in a competition for influence with China."
"We are certainly backing off from the commitments to food security, the Feed the Future initiative that Senator Lugar referred to."
"People who have been alienated from their governments with no political power are beginning to believe that they have a personal stake in their country's direction."
"We have also seen a complete dismissal of the work on climate change and energy security, which I think is a grave mistake."
"I look forward to her thoughts on State Department and foreign policy priorities for the coming year."
"We are leaving them a fighting chance for a democratic future, which is not bred in the bone at all."
"Proliferation of nuclear materials and missile materials coming out of North Korea is one of our major concerns."
"Let me follow through on a comment that one of you made, that there may be 20,000 North Koreans in South Korea as refugees."
"I asked the Congressional Research Service to evaluate the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1874."