Quotes from Morgan Ortagus

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

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.

I'm happy to be serving my country.

We have the right to peacefully assemble in the United States.

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.

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

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.

There are areas in which the Russians are actually surprisingly cooperative.

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.

What we're trying to do is to look at the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Xi for who they really are.

From a legal perspective, the barriers to women's economic success is systemic.

We have told the Iranian regime countless times, do not confuse President Trump's strategic patience with weakness.

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.

President Trump has always said that he does not want war, that he seeks peace with Iran, peace in the Middle East.

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

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

I'm from Florida and we have huge primary contests there.

Quite frankly, I don't want someone with the temperament of a middle school pubescent boy in the president's office.

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

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.

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

A divided government doesn't have to be a death blow to foreign policy.

The foreign policy community in Washington has been arguing that America must put our values at the head of our foreign policy once again - and I couldn't agree more, so let's start by leading on women.

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.