I particularly support the $953 million to improve democracy and good governance and anticorruption and promote European integration.

My focus was not about the implementation of the JCPOA. It is about Iran's malign activities within the region that----

Human rights and democracy are never about the past. They are eternal, from my perspective.

While I may have disagreements at times on policy, I never doubt your commitment to America's virtues and promoting those virtues abroad.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to our panelists. I got to read your testimony when I was sitting in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with Secretary Kerry.

I did not really ask you for comments on Cuba, which I appreciate. I just want to let you know, for the record, how I felt.

Should Iran, who violated international norm and international law, ultimately be the entity to pay, since they are now flush with money that we have given them or returned to them?

This budget carries out our commitments.

If anything, we are going backwards here.

I have a sense we are creating a permissive environment.

I do not think Russia believes that anything is going to happen. I think that is why they continue to make the gains.

When we do business with the Castro regime, which is what we are doing--we are not doing business with the Cuban people.