My hope is that the new President in Kabul will reach out to his counterpart in Islamabad and deal with the issues of security and the people-to-people dynamics.
School enrollment for girls is at an unprecedented level. We do not want that to go backward. We want it to go forward.
Life expectancy has increased by two decades. That is a statistic that continually makes me kind of step back and gasp.
The elections are an Afghan moment.
We believe this political transition provides a significant opportunity to shift and talk now about the future of the country.
We do not want to find ourselves in the situation where we are breeding additional overconfidence on the part of the Russians.
The combined message that we seem to be sending... is that Latin America is not really a place of importance to us.
There are not complicated feelings about humanitarian assistance.
I echo Senator Menendez's concern about the Latin America budget.
It is important to keep that in mind as we think about a long-term strategy that would include economic, diplomatic, and military measures.
What happened in Crimea will have lasting implications for transatlantic security and for the region as a whole.