A decade ago, I lived in Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh, as the treasury attache to our embassy there, and I was, of course, on the ground in the Middle East whenever the Arab Spring started, and it's fast-forward a decade later, nine years later. It's hard to believe that I am still working on this issue. You know, here in the State Department.

Morgan Ortagus

Access to humanitarian assistance and information are all the more important during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Morgan Ortagus

What we saw in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago was a massacre, a massacre of innocent people that came from Hong Kong but also Chinese people to protest.

Morgan Ortagus

We can pursue peaceful diplomacy with the Iranian regime while also continuing our maximum economic pressure campaign, while also defending ourselves... To say that it's a war with Iran or nothing is just a fundamental misunderstanding of how foreign policy actually works.

Morgan Ortagus

Most Republicans have lined up behind the Trump foreign policy agenda, while Democrats lack a cohesive, unifying message or guiding philosophy on where they would lead the country internationally if in power.

Morgan Ortagus

We know that the end of any conflict is always messy. It's never a linear path when you've been at war for almost 20 years. It's never a clean, straight linear path to the end.

Morgan Ortagus

We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.

Morgan Ortagus

Given my own experience in national security, I have seen while serving abroad just how important women's economic empowerment is to national security.

Morgan Ortagus

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

Morgan Ortagus

The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.

Morgan Ortagus

We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.

Morgan Ortagus

Rather than abide by the rule of law, Maduro and his cronies follow mafia-style practices, intimidating the opposition by targeting their family members.

Morgan Ortagus

I thought that I knew the world pretty well. I mean this is what I do for a living, I've been in government or in the Navy Reserves for 13 years. I've got an undergraduate degree and a master's degree focused on that stuff so I would put myself on the what I thought was the more well educated end of the spectrum on these things.

Morgan Ortagus

The United States is deeply concerned about the vulnerability of the North Korean people to a coronavirus outbreak.

Morgan Ortagus

The United States and the D.P.R.K. will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of a single Saturday.

Morgan Ortagus

Venezuelans need free and fair presidential elections leading to democracy and economic recovery, not Maduro's expensive deals with another pariah state.

Morgan Ortagus

The United States, whenever it comes to any region in the world where there are tensions, asks for people to observe the rule of law, respect for human rights, respect for international norms. We ask people to maintain peace and security and direct dialogue.

Morgan Ortagus

We need a unifying presence in the central government in Iraq, and so we think the stability and security of Iraq, and especially the central government, is important.

Morgan Ortagus

The Iranian regime should know that we will hold them accountable for any actions that their Shia militias take in Iraq.

Morgan Ortagus

I don't think that leaking an American diplomat's private information, pictures, names of their children, I don't think that is a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do.

Morgan Ortagus

No one was affected by the brutality and the terrorism of Qassem Soleimani more than the Iranian people themselves.

Morgan Ortagus