Sam Brownback: “It is a noble ambition, and one worthy of America's best efforts.”

Promotion of international religious freedom is in our national interest, and it directly supports national security priorities including the defeat of ISIS and other violent extremist groups.

We have to get more focus on this by a broader cross-section, or we will not be effective in this.

Religious freedom is a fundamental right of every human no matter where they live, who they are, or what they believe.

The beauty of what this job has been I think under the prior administration and this one is that there are contentious issues that people do not agree upon.