"Tomorrow the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be holding a hearing on Afghanistan and the effectiveness of the U.S. participation in that foreign assistance program."
"The only way to pursue that is through direct negotiations; and that a vote in the United Nations, even though its legality may have some question, a vote within the United Nations would be counterpro..."
"North Korea must keep its commitments that it made in 2005 to really move forward to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula."
"I think the building of public-private partnerships will be quite crucial."
"We are looking at the new challenges that we have, both in terms not of what we alone can do, but what we can do with others."
"the committee is at the forefront of debate about America's position in a world of constant change."
"I join you in presenting to the committee, Ambassador Sherman, strongly support her confirmation."
"The United States has a security budget that includes not only the Department of Defense, but our civilian efforts of diplomacy within the State Department."
"We are inexorably connected to the world."
"It is her unique ability to understand the world, but understand the people of the United States of America that she serves."
"When we fail to act, the world all too often is silent as well."