Bob Menendez Jr.

I just hope that you will keep--if you are confirmed, that you will keep the narrative honest.

If confirmed, I will ensure our foreign partners understand our expectation that U.S. origin defense articles and services not be misused or misapplied.

In the President's FY 2018 budget for State Department programs, exchanges funding received a proposed cut of over 50 percent.

Until we change the dynamics of those countries, we will continuously have this challenge.

We need to change that reality.

I do not know what happened. I do not know if anything occurred in North Korea, other than a press conference.

I look for individuals who are going to be Assistant Secretaries within their field who will be strong advocates.

What would you advise the Secretary and the President as it relates to developing a comprehensive strategy on Iran?

I do not want to see that happen again.

In Congress, there is broad bipartisan consensus that the U.S. Government must work with our partners in the region to address the root causes--lack of security, weak rule of law, and extreme poverty--pushing people to leave their…

1.5 million people were massacred. That is a genocide.

I think we need to increase those prosecutions, but we need to do it in a way that also highlights the fact that we have to have robust, tailored, and holistic survivor services.

I think today, following the President's summit with Kim Jong-un in Singapore, I think we are in a dramatically different place.

You will be an independent advocate.

That is what history shows. That is what the world recognizes.

If we are not able to acknowledge the past, we are destined to relive it.

I believe we should lift the U.S. arms embargo on Cyprus.

There has been 100 Trinidadian citizens who have left their country to join the Islamic State over the last few years.

I understand your answer, that any proliferation--I get it.

The United States needs a strong, interagency strategy--led by U.N. Ambassador Haley--in order to have any chance to convince other countries to pay more.

I do not think we can rest comfortably at the end of the day.

It has been too hard. It has been frustrating.

I fully advocate for preventative action so that we can obviate kinetic action.

Do you believe that promoting democracy and human rights abroad is in the U.S. national interest?

If confirmed, I will work with State Department and other U.S. Government stakeholders in devising and implementing a regional approach to these concerns.