I intend to be your partner and champion for reforming the State Department.

This is what we can do without. This is what we need more of.

Our values make us sympathetic to your plight, and, when it's convenient, we might officially express that sympathy.

This budget cuts by 18 percent migration and refugee assistance to countries like Jordan.

We will continue to lead international development, global health, democracy and good governance, and humanitarian efforts.

The administration's proposal to slash approximately 30 percent from the State Department and foreign assistance budget signals an American retreat, leaving a vacuum and making us far less safe.

we feel has to be respected because that law was intended to put pressure on the regime to address these oppressive issues

Now is not the time to retreat.

Threat-based budgeting is the way to go, you're dead right.

We're going to cost-plus contracts have been replaced by fixed-price contracts. That's been a hell of a fight, but it's going to save money.

I think this budget will cost influence, we're going to lose influence, it's going to put lives at risk.

Cuts of the magnitude proposed would be a disaster for America's long term security that rest extensively on the strength of our diplomacy.

This generous assistance has been critical in reinforcing security in Tunisia.

I just don't see how, given the displacement of this many people and no end in sight, that 77 percent reduction in disaster assistance is consistent with the threats we face from the disasters that are going on all over the world.

I strongly urge you to support $60 billion for the International Affairs Budget.

We are a country with a conscience. We have long believed moral concerns must be an essential part of our foreign policy.

Our commitment to democratic principles and our shared values create the bedrock of our long-term partnership with the United States.

It's the worst signal to send to a good ally, the worst signal to send to the Russians.

To view foreign policy as simply transactional is more dangerous than its proponents realize.

Thank you, Senator Murphy. Well, we made it. I think you acquitted yourself very well, Mr. Secretary.

The current global challenges we face as a nation argue for more, not less, foreign aid, and strong U.S. leadership.

This budget will jeopardize millions of lives, and reverse decades of efforts to bring sustainable development, opportunity, health and dignity to people around the world.

We cannot sit on the sidelines and watch the State Department be seen as retreating at a time when we need more soft power, not less.

Now is not the time to decrease Embassy security funding unless you're going to close a lot of embassies.

If we are not in Afghanistan, you are going to pay a heavy price because that place will fall apart.