George H.W. Bush: “He should be confirmed.”

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

A nation that can feed itself is a nation more secure.

Strength is not empty rhetoric. It's not bluster. And in my experience, the strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.

We are here today, together, to strengthen and reform U.N. peacekeeping because our common security demands it.