Tom Malinowski

I had the perhaps dubious honor of overseeing some of our effort to try to leverage our influence with Saudi Arabia to persuade them to, in effect, bomb better.

The provision of weapons to Saudi Arabia, in my mind, would not rise to that level.

I do not think you are a bad person. Trust me. I do not think you have America's interests not at your heart.

But I do not support providing assistance that we know is being used to kill civilians.

I would beg you to think through what your vote would have.

Are we actually involved in active hostilities with the Saudis in Yemen?

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I think we should do what Secretary Tillerson is trying to do, which is to try to resolve this----

President Trump's very clear public message in Riyadh that we will no longer press the Gulf States on these issues was so harmful.

Absolutely not. I think we should sell them defensive arms that are----

I am still hopeful there may be a way--and I hope that the Trump administration will continue our efforts in this--to try to get that brave young man out of prison.

I don't approve of anyone who supports Hamas.

Shouldn't we abandon all of those efforts so that we clear that up and we are no longer seen as self-righteous or overweening?

We should be very stingy in offering that support to both Qatar and to Saudi Arabia.

in the business of promoting human rights and democratic values, you cannot be effective and agreeable at the same time.

I personally believe it is not and that we should therefore temper--not withdraw, but temper our support to the Saudis to encourage an outcome more in keeping with our interests.

I think they care about their international reputation.

I think there were multiple and very complicated motives.

the idea that we would abandon our advocacy of our own values, even if it makes other people uncomfortable, is, to me, a very troubling development in our own foreign policy.

I think it makes the United States complicit in something that we have tried to stop.

ISIL wants to overturn the existing political order in the Middle East.

The message should be: Cut it out.

Because we have an interest--first of all, we have a very strong alliance relationship with both countries.

It is in our interests to try to resolve this peacefully as quickly as possible.

We cannot have a credible global human rights policy unless we also apply it somehow to Saudi Arabia.