President Obama has recognized and deplored the horrific events that took place in the waning days of the Ottoman empire

Of course we recognize the sovereign right of Mexico's people to decide their country's course and future.

I am a strong believer in Chief of Mission authority. I am a strong believer that there needs to be transparency on any operations by U.S. Government agencies with the ambassador within the country of responsibility.

If we were to come to the conclusion that we do not believe that Egypt is pursuing its international obligations to that agreement, then we would expect that we would not be forthcoming in terms of the $1.5 billion that we give Egypt?

I think I would see my role as putting a lot of priority on strengthening democratic institutions because there is an issue of having a system that will avoid a political crisis, such as the one that occurred in 2009.

I do not believe having your political affairs director smoking a cigar with a narcotics trafficker is reaching out to civil society.

the ability to engage not just with civil society, but with human rights activists and political dissidents languishing inside of their country to create the space that is necessary for the proper democratic process to take place is very…

I am as committed to engage the Nicaraguan civil society as I have been with their Cuban counterparts during the last 3 years.

We and others in the international community have joined in trying to encourage strongly Nicaragua to allow international and domestic observation of the upcoming elections.

We are closing our USAID mission--in Guyana.

He has methodically and shrewdly consolidated his political power by subverting his country's democratic institutions.

I expected that formal answer. Let me go further, since you are going to be the United States Ambassador to China.