Ed Markey

Especially with regard to China and its expansionism, changing the law of the sea and the law of the air.

Being a United States Senator was one of the greatest honors of my life.

Yes. We do not need a second Korean War for sure.

If people were dying from fentanyl across the country at the same rate that they are in the United States--in the State of Massachusetts, 75,000 people would have died from a fentanyl overdose in 2016.

It has to be the same exact level because people are dying at the same level.

This is just absolutely a crisis in our country. We would be losing two Korean War levels of Americans every single year to fentanyl.

We cannot allow that to happen. We have to put the protections in place.

But it has to be partnered with crippling economic sanctions by China on the North Koreans, and that is not happening.

Sitting here today, I do not have a better option.

Yes, because I--it is hard for me to envision a situation where the Palestinians would allow a division of the question.

But ultimately, do you think the Palestinians would accept a solution that had the West Bank incorporated into Israel?

You mentioned a scenario under which the West Bank could be incorporated into Israel and that the country would still maintain its Jewish and democratic identity.

If the land in Beit El was included in a two-state solution and that land had to be returned to the Palestinians, would you support the return of that land to the Palestinians?

In the context of a consensual fully-agreed-to two-state solution? Yes.

So you do not personally support Israeli annexation of the West Bank?

Is there a deal that could be struck that has the Iranians agreeing that they will have no permanent military bases inside of Syria, so that we could kind of back out both external forces in a way that could ultimately lead to some…

I think that it is going to be a very, very tricky situation, and I worry that they will view anything that stabilizes the Assad regime as being an unintended signal to them to fund Sunni extremists.

I do not want to be in a world where President-elect Trump announces that he is giving up on regime change without a strategy simultaneously that there is a plan in place that then gives guarantees to the protection of the rights of the…

Working with Russia on Syria's civil war would essentially mean joining Assad's campaign to militarily conquer all of those opposed to Assad.

The administration announced that this week it would increase the supply of arms to Kurdish militant groups in Syria.

Let us have Russia veto it. Let us have Russia be--let us pin the tail on the donkey.

But it is broken. So what do you think about taking it to the U.N., taking it to a Chapter 7, escalating this thing to a point where everyone is going to be forced to sit down and discuss it, Syria and Russia might not like it, but at…

I guess what I would say is we should really intensify our efforts to make sure that there is no accidental situation that develops that could increase tensions.

So how do you interpret this poll that says that 66 percent of the South Korean public favors acquiring an independent nuclear deterrent?

So you are saying they would have to believe that if there was, for example, a nuclear attack on South Korea, that we would then launch a nuclear attack on North Korea.