"we are begging the Europeans to do the right thing and stop feeding the war machine with sending $870 million a day."
"we have got to help Romania with this, and it is absolutely essential to Moldova also."
"this brutal invasion, and that is on the energy front."
"It is a time where the economic statecraft is mixed with the diplomacy that we are normally more engaged in."
"We have had a large increase, relatively speaking, in the number of people who we find on the Terror Watch List who are coming across our Southwest Border."
"I understand you want to have the right technology and you want to be able to respond to the ever-changing biothreats."
"If confirmed you will be doing something very important which is to serve the people of D.C. but also get the backlog down and deal with a public safety crisis."
"At the beginning of this year there were more than 10,000 criminal cases pending. That is more than double the number from 2020."
"D.C. is experiencing a crime surge. There have been over 200 more armed robberies this year than last year at this time."
"I have seen how Russia weaponized energy. We need to free Europeans of malign actors like Russia."
"This is a critical time... particularly difficult because it is a time of great instability, which requires U.S. leadership, in my view, on the world stage."