"I am seeking arms control and nonproliferation experts to come back into the Department."
"There should be a rules-based framework for arms control, and nonproliferation."
"I think it certainly is a significant security challenge that we ignore at our peril."
"It is heartbreaking beyond words that, you know, young girls are attacked on their way to school by Taliban sympathizers and members who do not want young women to be educated."
"I take very seriously the function of the State Department to lead our government through the Office on Human Trafficking, to do all that we can to end this modern form of slavery."
"We want to marry those, because we think that will give us a more effective foreign policy for our country."
"I think that this deserves a lot of attention--it is part of the climate change agenda, but it also deserves separate attention."
"I look forward--on behalf of the President-elect--and working with Members of Congress who have a particular concern and interest in Latin America to making it abundantly clear that the Obama administ..."
"We want to seize the opportunities in Latin America, which is why the energy partnership that the President-elect has suggested has so much potential."
"To permit contact, to release him, to make it clear that there is a new attitude in Iran, as we believe there will be with the Obama administration toward engagement, carefully constructed, and with v..."
"We know, obviously, of the security contractors, and some of the difficulties that they have presented, but it's been contractors across the board."