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.
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.
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.
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.
We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American's private information.
Given my own experience in national security, I have seen while serving abroad just how important women's economic empowerment is to national security.
I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.
The Iranian regime continues to violate the human rights of its own people, targeting political and civil society activists.
We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.
Rather than abide by the rule of law, Maduro and his cronies follow mafia-style practices, intimidating the opposition by targeting their family members.
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.
The United States is deeply concerned about the vulnerability of the North Korean people to a coronavirus outbreak.
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.
Venezuelans need free and fair presidential elections leading to democracy and economic recovery, not Maduro's expensive deals with another pariah state.
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.
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.
The Iranian regime should know that we will hold them accountable for any actions that their Shia militias take in Iraq.
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.
No one was affected by the brutality and the terrorism of Qassem Soleimani more than the Iranian people themselves.
Whether it is Iraq, whether it is Yemen, whether it is Lebanon, whether it is Syria, I mean North Africa, you could go through the list of countries where Iran as the largest state sponsor of terrorism uses these proxies... to foment chaos in the Middle East.
From a legal perspective, the barriers to women's economic success is systemic.
President Trump has always said that he does not want war, that he seeks peace with Iran, peace in the Middle East.
The Iranian regime has been terrorizing the Middle East for 40 years. They've been the aggressor for 40 years. And finally this president, President Donald J. Trump, said 'enough is enough.'
I think that America is the glue that holds the world together.
Quite frankly, I don't want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president's office.
I'm happy to be serving my country.
I mean what had always been attractive to me about the State Department spokesperson role is that it's traditionally been a very substantive position.
There are areas in which the Russians are actually surprisingly cooperative.
We want to be a friend and partner to a sovereign, prosperous, and stable Iraq.
America is a force for good in the Middle East.
We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.
Listen, every time we're meeting with our counterparts in Israel, the state of Iran is always something that's at the top of the list and the things we discuss. And that's because the regime in Iran continually threatens Israel, threatens the United States.
We had something in the United States called, which is called CFIUS, which is the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. My husband used to be one of the lawyers on that committee.
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.
We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump's strategic patience with weakness.
Saudi Arabia is the bulwark of our relationship, especially when it comes to Iran, and without the partnership of Saudi Arabia and our other Gulf allies, we would not be able to have the maximum economic pressure campaign that we have.
We will continue to work around the world to beat ISIS about where they may exist, these are horrible ideologies or murderous ideologies.
Turkey has a long, proud democratic tradition.
Any effort to impose national security legislation that does not reflect the will of the people of Hong Kong would be highly destabilizing and would be met with strong condemnation from the United States and the international community.
We call on the P.R.C. to remain focused on supporting international efforts to combat the global pandemic and to stop exploiting the distraction or vulnerability of other states to expand its unlawful claims in the South China Sea.
China's Nine-Dashed Line was deemed an unlawful maritime claim by an arbitral tribunal convened under the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention in July 2016, a position shared by the U.S. government.
The United States will not tolerate the P.R.C.'s (People's Republic of China) violations of our sovereignty and intimidation of our people, just as we have not tolerated the P.R.C.'s unfair trade practices, theft of American jobs and other egregious behavior.
President Trump insists on fairness and reciprocity in U.S.-China relations.
What we're trying to do is to look at the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Xi for who they really are.
The United States is deeply concerned by Turkey's announced intentions to begin offshore drilling operations in an area claimed by the Republic of Cyprus as its Exclusive Economic Zone.
We want to have diplomatic engagement with the North Koreans.
What would be most productive is for Chairman Kim and his staff and for President Trump and all his staff to continue upon the path that was laid out for us both in Vietnam and at the DMZ, and that is a diplomatic resolution and the end of North Korea's nuclear weapons.
The United States welcomes China's commitment to engage in arms control negotiations.
Manufacturing evidence to justify arbitrary, politically motivated detentions is a common tool of the illegitimate former Maduro regime.
