Efforts were undertaken to influence an election by an adversary.

Congress in a bipartisan way stood for the principle that you could not undertake efforts to influence an American presidential election and have there be no consequence.

I think that is incredibly important.

What you have done over the years of your tenure with others to improve the lot of family farms through the creation of alternative energy options for farmers...

The Paraguayan Government is a strong partner and a good partner in the efforts regionally and bilaterally to interdict drug traffic shipments.

Sometimes we almost I think stumble into them a little bit by accident.

I will govern myself strictly in accordance with the practices imposed by the President and the Secretary of State.

The U.S. could never support a two-state solution if it did not require full recognition of Israel as the Jewish state.

I think adding cyber would be very complementary, and we would make sure to keep cybersecurity at the highest level of the utmost importance.

You are superbly qualified for this position.

I think the U.S.-Vietnam mil-mil relationship has grown, together with the rest of the bilateral relationship.

It is really a shining example for what government could be.

I want to emphasize the importance of OPIC in Virginia.

I want to ask you a couple of questions in the embassy security space.

I think Namibia is doing many things very, very well.

I think there is a critical humanitarian need to really be firm in our commitment to the Americans in Puerto Rico and to help rebuild.

This is foundational. It is in our First Amendment for a reason.

I know what other nations are doing around the world in terms of trying to build relationships, invest, find allies, find trade.

When I was Governor, the first day, I did an executive order that protected people in a variety of ways, including on the grounds of sexual orientation.

You are going to have a lot of instability if you do not treat 70 percent of your population well.

Having acknowledged that China and Russia would be critical, if there was an ability to find a nuclear deal of some kind with North Korea, you would also agree, would you not, that their belief about whether or not the U.S. would follow a…

I would like to be able to have a dialogue with both State, DOD, the White House about if we put proposals on the table, what is good, what is bad.

If you remove organizations and institutions that help you do that, we are really just--it is like eating our seed corn.

I think everybody on this committee is very familiar with arguments about this sector is crowding out my sector.

We cannot operate just on the basis of classified briefings about what the plan is.