Any proliferation and additional work by Iran on nuclear arms is of paramount importance and of concern to the United States.

This is an incredibly important position that you have been nominated to, and I have three lines of questioning that I will pursue: one is on Taiwan; one is on Iran; and the other is intellectual property issues.

Hamas rejects peaceful efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and continues to call for the destruction of the State of Israel.

I mean, it is very rare that we get 44 Members, in a bipartisan way, of the U.S. Senate to join together to send a message to the administration.

U.S. companies are losing tens of billions of dollars because of violations of intellectual property rights.

It is important that Guyana continue along this path in the elections scheduled to take place later this year.

Our No. 1 concern going forward would be the situation domestically for the upcoming elections and whether or not international and domestic observers will be allowed to observe those.

You've had a distinguished career, and you have been nominated for an exceptionally important assignment at this time in history.

I don't think there could be the slightest doubt about our views about Egypt's adherence to the Camp David peace treaty with Israel.

If we cannot accept the past, we cannot move forward.

This is questions of territory, identity, and a concern of those who have aspirations of getting territory.

It is up to the Syrian people to choose their own leaders, not foreigners. Our role is to support them.