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That whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else, and I think it's incumbent on Joe Biden to draw the clear distinctions between what America stands for in the world and what Vladimir Putin has been up to for the better part of over two decades now.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have been in the room with Vladimir Putin many times when I was working for President Obama. And whataboutism is always a characteristic of these summit meetings, that whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I have been in the room with Vladimir Putin many times when I was working for President Obama. And whataboutism is always a characteristic of these summit meetings, that whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else. And I think it's incumbent on President Joe Biden to draw the clear distinctions between what America stands for in the world and what Vladimir Putin has been up to for the better part of over two decades now.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Restricting remittances that can be sent to Cubans will directly hurt the Cuban people, this is a shameful and mean-spirited policy.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Because when you distilled it, stripped out the racism and misogyny, we’d run against Hillary eight years ago with the same message Trump had used: She’s part of a corrupt establishment that can’t be trusted to bring change.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Strikes could not have ended the violence in Syria or removed all of the (chemical weapons) which was destroyed through diplomacy.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We wanted to discuss not just want we're against, but what we're for.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We believe the United States needs to have affirmative values that we are promoting around the world, in addition to the efforts we do to counter terrorism, we wanted to discuss not just want we're against, but what we're for.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What we want to demonstrate with this visit is a significant upgrade in the relationship between the United States and Vietnam ... even as we have areas of difference.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What we want to demonstrate with this visit is a significant upgrade in the relationship between the United States and Vietnam as partners on many issues even as we have significant areas of difference.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It will be a subject of discussion with the Vietnamese, it’s something that we obviously have been looking at … in the context of our broader relationship.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We believe that now as much as ever it's important that the U.S. and Philippines are seen working together.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This is a new government and we’ll want to hear from them directly what their priorities are.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The only way to truly deal with global challenges is if everybody does their part.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've had good support from China, but we clearly believe that there's more that will continue to have to be done, including on enforcing the sanctions we have put into place.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Frankly, all they're doing is isolating themselves in not participating as they have in the past.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Russia's decision to certainly not participate at a high level we believe is a missed opportunity for Russia above all, frankly, all they're doing is isolating themselves in not participating as they have in the past.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Baseball is obviously something that the United States and the Cuban people share a common love of and it's a part of both of our heritages, and frankly, also part of the type of exchanges that we are pursuing in business, in culture, in the arts, in sports that can bring the American and Cuban people closer together.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We don’t view our steps as the types of things that would cause the Cuban government to change their political system.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
By bringing all of these leaders here to the United States, to Sunnylands, we could both finalize what we want to get done in this last year in office, but also send the message going forward that we do believe there should be this level of engagement with Southeast Asia.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This will kick off, I think, a year of significant attention on the Asia-Pacific, by bringing all of these leaders here to the United States, to Sunnylands, we could both finalize what we want to get done in this last year in office, but also send the message going forward that we do believe there should be this level of engagement with Southeast Asia.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I think this is an area where we and Congress are in the same space and agree on the need for increased sanctions.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We approach China on the basis that we have a shared interest in the principle of denuclearization and avoiding an escalation on the Korean peninsula.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's about settling history's account and meeting our responsibility, and this president, both because of his willingness to resolve painful issues in U.S. foreign policy and his focus on southeast Asia, is uniquely suited to do that. There is the potential for this to be a truly historic visit.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
We will think through what are the best ways to support that effort when we have greater clarify about both the election results and how that’s playing out.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We don't think escalation of tensions is in the interests of either side, what we want to see is calm and dialogue.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's an unusual policy, and I think as we look at the whole totality of the relationship, this is something that we felt was worth being in the list of things that we consider.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We're also dealing with people who've suffered the horrors of war, women and children, orphans. We can't just shut our doors to those people.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We didn't expect then and we don't expect now that you can end the conflict in Syria through an opposition group, i don't think at all that this was a case of poor execution.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
What I do want to emphasize is that the area where we would like to reach a greater understanding with the Chinese is on the protection of intellectual property and the ability of businesses to operate without concern of cyber theft.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I don't want to suggest a particular formal agreement, what I do want to emphasize is that the area where we would like to reach a greater understanding with the Chinese is on the protection of intellectual property and the ability of businesses to operate without concern of cyber theft.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We want to make sure that when we are working with our Gulf partners and Turkey ... that we have a common view in terms of which opposition deserves our support and that we're seeking to isolate more extremist elements of the opposition.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We're used to some reflexive partisanship on these issues, we're expecting there to be very strong Republican opposition, as there has been on many of our foreign and domestic priorities, but we're confident there's a growing base of support among Democrats in both the House and Senate for this deal.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
For us it was, you know, that was the person we know, that we see every day and wish the rest of the world could see.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
You could tell he was thinking about whether to do this or not, and when he did, you just felt this surge of emotion in the room ... the weight of history coming out all at once in a way that you don't ever see.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
However, we went through a very thorough review of those activities and we worked hard, together with the Brazilian government, to address a variety of concerns, but importantly, to begin a new chapter in our bilateral relationship.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Obviously, we recognize that the U.S.-Brazil relationship went through a turbulent patch after the disclosures that took place related to U.S. intelligence activities a couple of years ago, however, we went through a very thorough review of those activities and we worked hard, together with the Brazilian government, to address a variety of concerns, but importantly, to begin a new chapter in our bilateral relationship.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have problems with this legislation in its own right, but our principal focus right now is, let's give time and space to the negotiators to see if they get this done, do not take action over the course of the next couple of months that could jeopardize those negotiations by backing the Iranians and the rest of the world away from the table.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're constantly updating our security measures on our unclassified system, but we're frankly told to act as if we need not put information that's sensitive on that system.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We do not believe that our classified systems were compromised, we're constantly updating our security measures on our unclassified system, but we're frankly told to act as if we need not put information that's sensitive on that system.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We do not believe that our classified systems were compromised.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We're constantly updating our security measures on our unclassified system but we're frankly told to act as if we need not put information that's sensitive on that system, in other words, if you're going to do something classified, you have to do it on one email system, one phone system. Frankly, you have to act as if information could be compromised if it's not on the classified system.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Cubans were dug in … And we did kind of get stuck on this.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Part of the point was 'Look I wasn’t even born when this policy was put in place … We want to hear and talk about the future', tHE CUBANS WERE DUG IN.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We don't think the answer to the crisis in Ukraine is simply to inject more weapons and get into that type of tit-for-tat with Russia.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It meets the threshold of being bipartisan, high-level and people who worked very closely with Saudi Arabia over many years.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It took us by some surprise, there's a great affinity between the United States and India and our people, but there's also a history that is complicated and that would have made it seem highly unlikely that a U.S. president would be sitting with India's leaders at their Republic Day ceremony.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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