I understand you may not be prepared to answer that question today. But this committee is going to be very interested in how we treat a NATO partner violating our Russia sanctions provisions.

The importance of American democracy and our basic liberties, values, and way of life was never clearer to me than in the days after September 11, 2001.

You are prepared to give your personal time meeting with the community as well as meeting with our military.

the law is pretty specific. They are mandatory sanctions.

the process as set out in the Impoundment Control Act is clear.

I just want to underscore one additional area of concern that has not come out, and that is the Russia veto of the joint investigative mechanism under the chemical weapons inspection regime.

I assure you that it is a priority for the administration to ensure that we have the necessary support and coalition to hold the Syrian regime accountable.

I want to join you. Each of you have an impressive background, and your testimonies here today have been very much in keeping with the impressive backgrounds that you have.

We thank you and your family for being willing to serve our country. It is a tremendous sacrifice.

Let me make this clear. We made it more complicated, basically, at the request of our international partners and the administration, so they had flexibility.

Corruption is growing, unfortunately, in too many places in the world.

facilitating democracy and representative government also serves to minimize human rights abuses.

Throughout my Foreign Service career, I have promoted human rights and democracy around the globe in meaningful ways.

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Our language should reinforce our alliances, strengthen our messages and ideals, and certainly undercut the appeal of our enemy's vision of the world.

We really play into making our country more vulnerable when we use that type of rhetoric that estranges Muslims around the world.

I think we have to get the best advice we can as to how the military can, in fact, deal with violent extremism.