Morgan Ortagus

Public Servant

118 Quotes

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

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.

The Iranian regime should know that we will hold them accountable for any actions that their Shia militias take in Iraq.

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.

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

I work to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving and substance abuse, primarily with youth.

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.

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.

If 2016 taught us anything, it's that President Trump's political prowess should not be discounted or underestimated.

Take a lesson from President Obama, and don't go around Congress. When given the opportunity to work with lawmakers on the Iran nuclear deal and the Paris climate agreement, Obama chose to forgo the hard fight of treaty ratification and instead ruled by executive order. And now the United States is party to neither pact.

The United States welcomes China's commitment to engage in arms control negotiations.

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

We want to have diplomatic engagement with the North Koreans.

America is a force for good in the Middle East.

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.

We will always stand up for rule of law, the right to protest, the right of assembly.

We want to be a friend and partner to a sovereign, prosperous, and stable Iraq.

Given my own experience in national security, I have seen while serving abroad just how important women's economic empowerment is to national security.

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

We want to be a friend and partner to a sovereign, prosperous, and stable Iraq.

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