I applaud Israel's courage in agreeing to the release of prisoners at the outset of negotiations and hope the Palestinians will publicly commit to remain at the negotiating table.

At the end of the day, we need to address both the construction of new embassies that meet security needs and we need to do what we can to secure existing high-risk posts.

The United States has remained strongly engaged both politically and economically with Northern Ireland for decades.

Military capacity-building is one of the key points of engagement between the United States and the Republic of the Congo.

Advocacy for democratic freedoms is a central pillar of what we do abroad.

The political will is there. It is a democratic government that is trying to satisfy the needs of its own population.

U.S. policy priorities are clear: (1) deepening security cooperation, especially in the maritime domain; (2) strengthening Gabon's democratic processes; (3) enhancing trade and economic opportunities that benefit both countries; and (4)…

It will require our full, unequivocal, unwavering commitment to fully protect our embassies and those who serve this Nation abroad.

If we want to help governments stop transnational crime and narcotics trafficking, you have to give poor growers who have to sustain their families, alternative crops so that they are not growing coca at the end of the day.

It certainly does not make public policy sense to me.

We had 6,000 arrests and detentions last year. We had the Ladies in White... get attacked brutally every week.

the benefits of such investments far outweigh the costs