"I believe we are entering a period of renaissance with the Philippines."
"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."
"Have you made any recommendations for legislative reform, amendments that we ought to be offering here as legislators that would be helpful to you?"
"Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I join you in welcoming our distinguished witnesses."
"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."
"we should recognize that our ability to manufacture a predictable outcome of this crisis is extremely limited."
"Ecuador has failed to comply with the court ordered awards promulgated by the BIT Tribunal."
"THE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AND STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES FOR RATIFICATION"
"We say that every time we go--we argue with Iran. Every time we argue with North Korea, we argue on the basis that they are not abiding by international rules."
"As Senator Lugar has said, to oppose this Convention on economic grounds requires one to believe that U.S. industries as diverse as oil and gas, fishing, shipping, seabed mining, and telecommunication..."
"The only way to protect that outside of this is to accede to the treaty."