Antony Blinken

“When it comes to people, process and policy, Mr. Trump's administration has gone from bad to disastrous.”

“Vietnam's transformation - like that of so many nations - has been supported and even accelerated by an international, rules-based order dedicated to the progress of every nation.”

“Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller.”

“It's one thing for a foreign partner to doubt a president's judgment; it's entirely more debilitating when that partner doubts the president's word.”

“President John F. Kennedy demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when he sent emissaries to America's allies in October 1962 to secure support for the quarantine of Cuba.”

“Pyongyang possesses thousands of artillery pieces 30 miles from Seoul. Just one retaliatory salvo could decimate South Korea's capital.”

“The contributions of refugees to the diverse mosaic of our nation are undeniable.”

“The best and brightest are not exactly clamoring to jump aboard the Trump bandwagon.”

“It is not O.K. for one sovereignty to dictate to another which countries or organizations it may associate with.”

“In the absence of an engaged, diplomatically energized America, others will set the agenda, shape the rules and dominate international institutions - and probably not in ways that advance our interests or values.”

“President-elect Biden is committed to the proposition that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon.”

“Day by day, we are meant to continue the work of building a nation that better reflects the values, honors the diversity, and lives up to the aspirations of every single one of its citizens.”

“President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.' It is hard to imagine anyone other than Mr. Trump expressing that sentiment.”

“Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and French, Chinese and Japanese, Mexicans and Americans have overcome their once insurmountable differences. Palestinians and Jews also have much to gain from peaceful coexistence.”

“As we look at China, there is no doubt that it poses the most significant challenge of any nation state to the United States, in terms of our interests the interest of the American people.”

“Mr. Tillerson's obsession with downsizing our diplomacy has colored his time at the State Department.”

“Our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down. It is to uphold this rules-based order that China is posing a challenge to. Anyone who poses a challenge to that order, we're going to stand up and - and defend it.”

“Beijing's foreign investments can be coercive and exploitative - using Chinese laborers and contractors instead of local ones, saddling poorer countries with enormous debts, leaving behind shoddy workmanship and fueling corruption.”

“There is no shortage of objectionable Iranian behavior.”

“Mr. Trump is a false prophet.”