"You want to vet them again? Go ahead. But they've already been vetted, and probably the most thorough vetting in American history."
"Deeply saddened by the passing of former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, a dedicated public servant who stepped up to take the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee’s seat in January."
"I personally believe that USAID has a national security mission."
"We need to return to the core mission principles."
"I do believe that it was an unintended consequence that needs to be fixed."
"This is what gave the USAID a black eye. I personally believe that USAID has a national security mission."
"I would urge the State Department to put the adequate resources necessary to deliver this, because our foreign adversaries are looking at this."
"We promised them we would protect them when they worked with our servicemen and women in Afghanistan."
"If you go back to its inception in the '60s, under President Kennedy and the Cold War, it was to counter the Soviet Union. We need to return to the core mission principles."
"It's the best global health program ever implemented by the United States."
"It seems to me, we ought to live up to our word, otherwise down the road in another conflict, no one's going to trust us."
"Make no mistake, Georgia's foreign agents law has ruptured Georgia's relationship with the West."