Tom Malinowski

“With no guillotine, 'A Tale of Two Cities' would have been a travel guide.”

“The first shots the United States fired in its fight with the Islamic State were to protect a religious minority: the Yazidis on Mount Sinjar, in northern Iraq. And we did so within days of their first call for help in 2014.”

“Congress has a constitutional right to help decide and limit how the country uses its military power. But to assert this right, the legislature must also live up to the responsibility that goes with it, with leaders who are willing to bear it and capable of doing so wisely.”

“An administration that really wanted to win an ideological contest with the Chinese Communist Party would stand up for human rights consistently, rather than calling journalists anywhere 'the enemy of the people.'”

“Investment in public infrastructure is key to America's greatness and essential to our national security.”

“Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.”

“No alliance in history has done more to prevent war, and no alliance is more rooted in the values America champions, than NATO.”

“Arresting opposition leaders and restricting civil society will not stop people from protesting, but it can create leaderless movements that leave no one with whom the government can mediate a peaceful way forward.”

“I've traveled the world, and I've seen how people marvel at the United States of America, at our democracy, at our ambition to build what so few countries have - a nation defined not by race or tribe or religion or place of birth but by an idea, that everyone is created equal.”

“I believe in our country's greatness.”

“Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality.”

“It is deterrence that has prevented the use of nuclear weapons by all states that possess them since 1945.”

“Qaddafi may rail endlessly about foreign meddling, but the reaction of Western governments clearly matters to his regime.”

“Ever since the end of the Cold War, it has been our paramount interest in Europe to strengthen NATO and to extend it - an effort I was part of when I served in the State Department and the NSC in two administrations.”

“Perhaps we could do without tragedy in art - but what about comedy? Is it a coincidence that so many of the best American humorists have been Jewish and African-American?”

“Nations have succeeded before in banning classes of weapons - chemical, biological and cluster munitions; landmines; blinding lasers.”

“The president is entitled to try to persuade Congress and the American people to pursue whatever policies he thinks are needed. But he is not entitled to shut down the government when he fails to persuade us.”

“It is utterly wrong for a president - any president - to shutter the government of the United States when he can't persuade the Congress and the American people to give him what he wants.”

“Just as some Republicans despise John McCain for calling out Donald Trump, some Democrats could never accept him unless he became one of us. And he wasn't: he voted with the NRA; supported the Iraq War; elevated Sarah Palin.”

“A computer can process information and engage a weapon infinitely faster than a human soldier.”