United States

Kyiv-based analyst

25 Apr 2024 9 6

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 days ago

“When it comes to Russia's defense industrial base the primary contributor in this moment to that is China. We see China sharing machine tools, semiconductors, other dual use items that have helped Russia rebuild the defense industrial base. China can't have it both ways. It can't afford that. You want to have positive, friendly relations with countries in Europe, and at the same time, you are fueling the biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold War.”

U.S. Secretary of State

19 Apr 2024 6 2

Marwan Bishara

Inserted 1 week ago

“Once again, the US's veto demonstrated a policy of it's my way or the highway. Palestine could only be a country the way the United States sees it, or Israel sees it, only at the time that it's suitable to the United States and within the geopolitics and the global interest of the United States. The US is sacrificing the freedom of Palestinian people for egotistical and narrow interests of the United States and Israel.”

Aje

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera

18 Apr 2024 4 2

Brad Setser

Inserted 1 week ago

“Tariffs are currently 7.5 percent on electric vehicle battery packs but 25 percent on the components of those packs. The lower rate should be raised. China had long steered its subsidies to companies that manufacture and source their products in China - and sometimes had required those companies to be Chinese-owned. In order to build up industrial sectors where China has a first-mover advantage and now a cost advantage you need to have an insulated market - and to use some of the tools that China has already used.”

Senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and a former adviser to the U.S. trade representative under Mr. Biden

18 Apr 2024 4 2

Lael Brainard

Inserted 1 week ago

“China's policy-driven overcapacity poses a serious risk to the future of the American steel and aluminum industry. China cannot export its way to recovery. China is simply too big to play by its own rules.”

Head of the White House National Economic Council

18 Apr 2024 5 4

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Inserted 1 week ago

“I look forward to engaging with both the Republic of Korea and Japan, but like-minded (countries) as well, on trying to develop options both inside the U.N. as well as outside the U.N. The point here is that we cannot allow the work that the panel of experts were doing to lapse.”

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden

17 Apr 2024 6 3

John Kirby

Inserted 1 week ago

“Iran's massive aerial attack on Israel was a spectacular and embarrassing failure. We've seen reporting that the Iranians meant to fail, and this spectacular and embarrassing failure was all by design. All of this is categorically false.”

Aje

White House national security spokesperson

15 Apr 2024 2 1

John Kirby

Inserted 1 week ago

“Our commitment is ironclad to defending Israel and to helping Israel defend itself. As the president has said many times, we don't seek a wider war in the region. We don't seek a war with Iran.”

White House national security spokesperson

14 Apr 2024 2 2

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 1 week ago

“We do not seek conflict with Iran, but we will not hesitate to act to protect our forces and support the defense of Israel.”

Aje

US Secretary of Defense

13 Apr 2024 2 2

Mike Johnson

Inserted 1 week ago

“I will continue to engage with the White House to insist upon a proper response. The Biden Administration's undermining of Israel and appeasement of Iran have contributed to these terrible developments.”

Aje

US House of Representatives Speaker

13 Apr 2024 4 1

Joe Biden

Inserted 1 week ago

“I've just spoken with Prime Minister Netanyahu to reaffirm America's ironclad commitment to the security of Israel. I told him that Israel demonstrated a remarkable capacity to defend against and defeat even unprecedented attacks - sending a clear message to its foes that they cannot effectively threaten the security of Israel.”

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President of the United States

13 Apr 2024 4 1

Dana Stroul

Inserted 1 week ago

“If Iran's objective was to punish and isolate Israel, it appears to have fallen well short of that objective. The U.S. and Israeli militaries were able to defend against a complex attack. Given how significant this attack was, it is difficult to see how Israel cannot respond.”

Senior Fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Formerly the Pentagon's top Middle East policy official

13 Apr 2024 3 2

Nader Hashemi

Inserted 1 week ago

“Biden isn't looking for a Mideast war during an election year. The GOP [Republican Party] are another matter. If, however, Iran were to directly hit targets within Israel or an Israeli embassy somewhere in the world, then Biden would be under huge domestic pressure to respond militarily. If this should happen, we would be on the precipice of a wider regional war, and Netanyahu's plan for instigating this crisis will have come to fruition.”

Aje

Associate professor of Middle East and Islamic politics at Georgetown University

12 Apr 2024 9 3

Samantha Power

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“Food has not flowed in sufficient quantities to avoid this imminent famine in the south, and these conditions that are giving rise already to child deaths in the north.”

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Director of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)

10 Apr 2024 3 1

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“I think what he's [Benjamin Netanyahu] doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach. So what I'm calling for is the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, a total access to all food and medicine going into the country. I've spoken to everyone from the Saudis to the Jordanians to the Egyptians. They're prepared to move this food in. There's no excuse to not provide for the medical and food needs of those people. It should be done now.”

President of the United States

09 Apr 2024 3 3

Janet Yellen

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“While we have more to do, I believe that, over the past year, we have put our bilateral relationship on more stable footing. This has not meant ignoring our differences or avoiding tough conversations. It has meant understanding that we can only make progress if we directly and openly communicate with one another.”

United States Secretary of the Treasury

07 Apr 2024 2 2

Janet Yellen

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“China is too large to export its way to rapid growth and would benefit by reducing excess industrial capacity which is pressuring other economies. Overcapacity isn't a new problem, but it has intensified, and we're seeing emerging risks in new sectors.”

United States Secretary of the Treasury

05 Apr 2024 4 3

Antony Blinken

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“It is absolutely essential to get Ukrainians what they continue to need to defend themselves, particularly when it comes to munitions and air defences. It's another reason why the supplementary budget request that President [Joe] Biden has made to [the US] Congress must be fulfilled as quickly as possible.”

Aje

U.S. Secretary of State

02 Apr 2024 4 2

John Bolton

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Trump, when he has an idea, comes back to it again and again, then gets distracted, forgets, but eventually comes back to it and acts on it. That's why leaving Nato is a real possibility. A lot of people think it's just a negotiating tool, but I don't think so.”

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Former US National Security Advisor from 2018 to 2019

30 Mar 2024 2 3

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 4 weeks ago

“Gaza is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe, and the situation is getting even worse. And we need immediate increases in assistance to avert famine, and our work to open a temporary humanitarian corridor by sea will help, but the key is still expanding aid deliveries by land.”

US Secretary of Defense

26 Mar 2024 6 4

Antony Blinken

Inserted 1 month ago

“On the resolution, which got very strong support, but then was cynically vetoed by Russia and China, I think we were trying to show the international community a sense of urgency about getting a ceasefire.”

U.S. Secretary of State

22 Mar 2024 5 2

Mike Johnson

Inserted 1 month ago

“No one wants Vladimir Putin to prevail. I'm of the opinion that he wouldn't stop at Ukraine … and go all through the way through Europe. There is a right and wrong there, a good versus evil in my view and Ukraine is the victim here.”

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US House of Representatives Speaker

13 Mar 2024 3 3

Robert Ford

Inserted 1 month ago

“Forcing [the] USA to do airdrops of aid to Gaza as if [the] USA is no better than Egypt [and] Jordan is Israel's worst humilitation of [the] USA [I've] ever seen. I should add that [the] USA will do humanitarian aid airdrops to Gazans if the Israeli Air Force graciously agrees not to shoot down the American planes over Gaza.”

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Fellow at the Middle East Institute

02 Mar 2024 7 3

Joe Biden

Inserted 1 month ago

“We need to do more and the United States will do more. Aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough.”

President of the United States

01 Mar 2024 1 1

Bernie Sanders

Inserted 1 month ago

“The United States, which has helped fund the Israeli military for years, cannot sit back and allow hundreds of thousands of innocent children to starve to death. As a result of Israeli bombing and restrictions on humanitarian aid, the people of Gaza are facing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. Whether Netanyahu's right-wing government likes it or not, the United States must immediately begin to airdrop food, water, and other lifesaving supplies into Gaza.”

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Vermont Senator

01 Mar 2024 4 2

Tom Andersson

Inserted 1 month ago

“Right now we're at an early curve where there's loads of interest in humanoids, and I think that will continue for a while. There will need to be several step changes before it can be rolled out broadly.”

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Co-founder and principal analyst of STIQ Ltd.

29 Feb 2024 1 2

Joe Biden

Inserted 1 month ago

“Ramadan is coming up, and there's been an agreement by the Israelis that they would not engage in activities during Ramadan, as well, in order to give us time to get all the hostages out.”

President of the United States

27 Feb 2024 4 3

Clair Dobbin

Inserted 2 months ago

“The appellant's prosecution might be unprecedented, but what he did was unprecedented. Assange indiscriminately and knowingly published to the world the names of individuals who acted as sources of information to the U.S It is these facts which distinguish him, not his political opinions.”

Lawyers representing the US in the Assange case

21 Feb 2024 2 2

Antony Blinken

Inserted 2 months ago

“His death in a Russian prison and the fixation and fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built. Russia is responsible for this.”

U.S. Secretary of State

16 Feb 2024 4 0

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 months ago

“He bravely stood up to the corruption, the violence and all the bad things the Putin government were doing. Putin is responsible for Navalny's death.”

President of the United States

16 Feb 2024 3 1

Joe Biden

Inserted 2 months ago

“I've had extensive conversations with the prime minister of Israel over the last several days, one hour each. And I made the case, that I feel very strongly about, that there has to be a temporary ceasefire to get the hostages out. In the meantime, I anticipate, I'm hoping, that the Israelis will not make any massive land invasion [of Rafah] in the meantime. So, my expectation, that's not gonna happen.”

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President of the United States

16 Feb 2024 2 3

Chuck Schumer

Inserted 2 months ago

“It's certainly been years, perhaps decades, since the Senate has passed a bill that so greatly impacts not just our national security, not just the security of our allies, but the security of Western democracy.”

New York’s Senator and the Senate Majority Leader

13 Feb 2024 2 3

Chuck Schumer

Inserted 2 months ago

“Our friends abroad are watching closely how we vote in the upcoming days. Ukrainian fighters are watching and you can be sure (Russian President) Vladimir Putin is watching the Senate, too.”

New York’s Senator and the Senate Majority Leader

11 Feb 2024 3 7

Mustafa Barghouti

Inserted 2 months ago

“What I expected to hear from Biden [is something] we will never hear. His comments about the imminent Israeli attack on Rafah should have been accompanied by the United States supporting a ceasefire. Rafah is the only area that is not destroyed completely in Gaza. Israel never gave up on its plan to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian population into Egypt. That's what the US president should have opposed. But he doesn't. The US is a participant in this attack.”

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General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative

11 Feb 2024 6 3

Eswar Prasad

Inserted 2 months ago

“These trips have considerable significance for preventing any further escalation of hostilities, especially as election year rhetoric in the U.S. ramps up. I think both sides are very eager to tamp down any further escalation of hostilities.”

Cornell University professor and former head of the International Monetary Fund’s China division

05 Feb 2024 1 3

Mike Johnson

Inserted 2 months ago

“I've seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won't come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, 'the border never closes.' If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.”

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US House of Representatives Speaker

04 Feb 2024 0 2

Jake Sullivan

Inserted 2 months ago

“We intend to take additional strikes, and additional action, to continue to send a clear message that the United States will respond when our forces are attacked, when our people are killed.”

US National Security Adviser

04 Feb 2024 4 2

Lloyd Austin

Inserted 2 months ago

“This is the start of our response. We do not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else, but the president and I will not tolerate attacks on American forces.”

US Secretary of Defense

03 Feb 2024 5 1

Patty Culhane

Inserted 2 months ago

“Michigan has a large Arab American and Muslim population who voted overwhelmingly for Biden in the last election. If he loses even half of their vote, it's unlikely he can win Michigan - and without Michigan, he has a very narrow path to winning a second term.”

Al Jazeera correspondent reporting from Warren (Michigan)

01 Feb 2024 4 3

Ben Cardin

Inserted 2 months ago

“My approval of Turkey's request to purchase F-16 aircraft has been contingent on Turkish approval of Sweden's NATO membership. But make no mistake: This was not a decision I came to lightly. I look forward to beginning this new chapter in our relationship with Turkey, expanding the NATO alliance, and working with our global allies in standing up to ongoing Russian aggression against its peaceful neighbours.”