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Tonight, President Trump made the decision to recognize that that hard-fought real estate, that important place, is proper to be a sovereign part of the state of Israel. President Trump made a bold decision to recognize that, an important decision for the people of Israel. It will truly be historic, and the people of Israel should know that the battles they fought, the lives that they lost on that very ground, were worthy and meaningful and important for all time.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 day ago Politics

Certain destabilisation and bloodshed in our region.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 day ago Politics

When they show up with deals that seem to be too good to be true it's often the case that they, in fact, are.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 3 days ago Politics

The Iranian regime fired off a space launch vehicle today, such vehicles incorporate technologies that are virtually identical and interchangeable with those used in ballistic missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 days ago Politics

There's deep distrust. There's distrust between both parties. We need to see Chairman Kim actually deliver.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 days ago Politics

Look, we desperately want a good solution, mr. Kushners working on the Middle East peace plan. Therell be a right time when we will introduce bigger pieces of that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 3 days ago World

I'm going to be there until he tweets me out of office.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 4 days ago Politics

I try to just avoid ruling things out when there's others who are in control.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 4 days ago Politics

I've learned in life one needs to work hard, keep your head down, do your job as well as you can and then the next thing will come to you.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 4 days ago Politics

She left open the possibility that negotiations continue, we are hopeful we can continue to have conversations and negotiations.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 7 days ago World

It's not the first time, i have a vague recollection of being called gangster-like.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 7 days ago World

That's the requirement laid out by the United Nations Security Council, we continue to work.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 7 days ago World

Many Americans look at the State Department and wonder what State Department does for them. They see the Secretary travel to far-off places and they ask the question,' Is America, are Americans, the first client of State Department ?' You should know that you are.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 days ago Politics

They were some of the most special times in my life, george Washington has the famous quote that says,' I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.' I think George Washington means that, too.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 days ago Politics

Do not start that rumor. You've got media in the back, there is no upside to that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 days ago Politics

It was time for them to come back, their security is always paramount. And it's just gotten very difficult.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 days ago Top News

No nation has done more to sustain the death and daily misery of ordinary Venezuelans, including Venezuela's military and their families, than the communists in Havana.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 days ago Politics

I assure you that those countries will know.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 days ago Politics

I am hopeful, although I have no commitment yet, that we will be back at it, that I'll have a team in Pyongyang in the next couple weeks, i'm continuing to work to find those places where there's a shared interest.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 18 days ago World

We've been engaged in the fundamental proposition of trying to convince Chairman Kim, who is 35 years old, that the historic strategy which said that, absent nuclear weapons, North Korea will fall, that the government will fall, that it was their only way of achieving security for their country. And they trust that. They're confident that that will protect them.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 18 days ago World

It's been a steady stream of progress towards getting to where we want them to be, we just didn't get far enough.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

You don't know which ones you are actually going to get until the two leaders actually have a chance to get together, there was a lot of preparatory work. We were prepared for the potentiality of this outcome as well. And tomorrow we will get right back at it.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

It is a long ways, we have always known it was a long ways.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

Look, there has to be a reason for the conversations. There has to be a theory of the case about how to move forward. I'm confident that there is one.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

Y'all shouldn't get hung up on things like that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 22 days ago Top News

We were hopeful even this morning. We all went back and tried to sharpen our pencils and see if we couldn't get a little further and we actually did, but still, look, it is a long ways, we have always known it was a long ways.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 22 days ago Top News

We are hopeful that over the next couple of weeks, we can really begin to make a dent in that problem.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 22 days ago World

America's not covering up for a murder.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 23 days ago Politics

I expressed to both ministers that we encourage India and Pakistan to exercise restraint, and avoid escalation at any cost, i also encouraged both ministers to prioritize direct communication and avoid further military activity.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 24 days ago Top News

I also encouraged both ministers to prioritize direct communication and avoid further military activity.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 24 days ago Top News

The United States calls out human rights violations each place that we find them, whether it's the Chinese holding Muslim Uighurs inside of their country in detention camps, the activities in North Korea, there is no nation that acts against violations of human rights in the way the American nation does, and President Trump has been at the forefront of doing that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 25 days ago Top News

This administration is not going to do that, and I'm very hopeful that North Koreans will make a substantial step towards achieving the full denuclearization in a verifiable way in North Korea.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

I don't want to get into the details of what's being proposed, what the offers and counteroffers may be. But a real step, a demonstrable, verifiable step is something that I know President Donald Trump is very focused on achieving.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

This aid went in ... at the request of the legitimate president of Venezuela, he said, 'Please bring food to my people. Please bring medicine to the sick that are here.' That's what we've been working on these past few weeks.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

I think good things will happen including the restoration of the wealth that was created by those oil fields.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

It's just humanitarian aid.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

That's not what State Mike Pompeo said, what he said was that the efforts that had been made in Singapore, this commitment that Chairman Kim, may have substantially taken down the risk to the American people.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 25 days ago Politics

While Juan Guaido builds distribution networks for humanitarian assistance, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blocks its entry and sends armed criminal gangs to attack the innocent civilians accompanying the convoys.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 26 days ago World

That's not what he said... I know precisely what he said.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 26 days ago Top News

What he said was that the efforts that had been made in Singapore -- this commitment that Tony Kim made -- have substantially taken down the risk to the American people. It's the mission of the Secretary of State and the President of the United States to keep American people secure. We're aiming to achieve that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 26 days ago Top News

There are many things State Mike Pompeo could do to demonstrate State Mike Pompeo commitment to denuclearization.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 26 days ago Top News

President Trump has also said this is going to take time. There may have to be another summit. We may not get everything done this week.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 26 days ago U.S.

So funny to watch people who have failed for years, they got NOTHING, telling me how to negotiate with North Korea. But thanks anyway!

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 26 days ago U.S.

Shes a non-citizen terrorist; she has no legal basis for a claim of U.S. citizenship, shes not coming back to the United States to create the risk that someday shed return to the battlefield and continue to put at risk American people, American kids, American boys and girls that were sent to help defeat ISIS -- she put them at risk, shes not a U.S.citizen, shes not coming back.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

Relationships matter, they affect everything in our lives. Whether its grand strategy and denuclearization, or simpler things. Relationships absolutely matter. Its important that the two leaders are able to effectievly communicate.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

Every option is on the table, were going to do the things that need to be done to make sure ... that democracy reigns andthat theres a brighter future for the people of Venezuela.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

The announcement this week that were still going to have a residual footprint inside of Syria makes sense in the context of our mission statement, and the tactics will change as time goes on. Well use different tactics in different parts of the world to fight back against radical Islamic terrorism. President Trumps committed to doing that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

Were very hopeful that in the days and weeks and months ahead, the Maduro regime will understand that the Venezuelan people have made its days numbered.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 26 days ago Politics

This aid must be allowed to enter Venezuela and reach people in need.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 28 days ago Politics

We are going to get complete denuclearization ; only then will there be relief from the sanctions.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 28 days ago Politics

I look forward to Jamie McCourt confirmation and continuing to work with Jamie McCourt at the United Nations.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 28 days ago Top News

She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 1 month ago US News

Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into United States. Hoda Muthana does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, State Department to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

The U.S. troops withdrawing from Syria is not the end of America's fight. The fight is one we will continue to wage alongside you, the drawdown in troops is essentially a tactical change, it is not a change in the mission. It simply represents a new stage in an old fight.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

The coalition must continue to support the government of Iraq in its efforts to secure the liberated areas of that country, mr. Foreign Minister, we're with you.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

Mr. Foreign Minister, we're with you.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

The drawdown of troops is essentially a tactical change it is not a change in the mission.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

If Russia does not return to full and verifiable compliance with the treaty within this six-month period by verifiably destroying its INF-violating missiles, their launchers, and associated equipment, the treaty will terminate.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. ... Either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem, we call on all members of the Security Council to support Venezuela's democratic transition and interim President Guaido's role.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

The Russians have chosen to support the Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro regime, I hope they will change their way, i hope they will come to see that the rightful people to run this country are those that the Venezuelan people so chose and so we'll have conversations with every country including The Russians, we'll talk with the Chinese, we'll talk with everyone, we think the whole world ought to get behind what it is that the Venezuelan people have demanded for their country.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

The United States is helping to recover a brighter future for Venezuela. We're here to urge all nations to support the democratic aspirations of the Venezuelan people as they try to free themselves from former President Maduro's illegitimate mafia state.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Now it's time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games, either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Nicolas Maduro and Nicolas Maduro mayhem.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 month ago World

Our nations must stand up for the rule of law and support the leader who the Venezuelan people have affirmed as their legitimate interim president.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 month ago World

Do not test United States on our resolve to protect our people.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 month ago World

We call on the OAS and all its member states to act on basic, decent democratic principles and the incontrovertible facts on the ground, his regime is morally bankrupt, it's economically incompetent and it is profoundly corrupt.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

Chairman Kim continues to assure the President of the United States he is intent on denuclearization and I hope that at the end of February, when the two leaders get together, we can make a substantial step along the way.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

He told you that radical Islamist terrorism does not stem from an ideology. He told you that 9/11 (the Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on the United States) led my country to abandon its ideals, particularly in the Middle East, the results of these misjudgments have been dire.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

What did we learn from all of this? We learned that when America retreats, chaos often follows. When we neglect our friends, resentment builds. And when we partner with our enemies, they advance.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

In Syria, the United States will use diplomacy and work with our partners to expel every last Iranian boot.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

These are folks that have fought with us and that it's important that we do everything we can to make sure that those folks that fought with us are protected and Erdogan has made commitments, he understands that -- I think he uses the language that he has no beef with the Kurds -- we want to make sure that that's the case.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

You'll see in the coming days and weeks we are, we're redoubling not only our diplomatic, but our commercial efforts to put real pressure on Iran to achieve what it is we set out for them back in May, the President's decision to withdraw our folks from Syria in no way impacts our capacity to deliver on that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 2 months ago World

The United States will not stand by and watch the Iranian regime's destructive policies place international stability and security at risk, we advise the regime to reconsider these provocative launches and cease all activities related to ballistic missiles in order to avoid deeper economic and diplomatic isolation.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 2 months ago World

The Chinese have been very clear to us that these are separate issues, their behavior has demonstrated that as well and we appreciate that. China has actually been a good partner in our efforts to reduce the risk to the world from North Korea's nuclear capability; I expect they will continue to do so.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 2 months ago Top News

Everyone we've communicated with, all the countries I'm going to visit to -- we've communicated with all of our European allies. I think everyone understands what the United States is doing. At least the senior leaders in their governments do.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

They both said we're gon na get out. The President said we're going to do it in a orderly fashion that achieves our objective and that... our mission set in the region remains unchanged. Those seem pretty consistent to me.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

And if the detention is not appropriate, we will demand his immediate return.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 2 months ago US News

Undoubtedly, no more missiles being tested, no more nuclear testing. We're in a better place today.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

There is no direct reporting connecting Saudi Arabia crown prince to the order to murder Jamal Khashoggi.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

They don't make them like that very often.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

If you work at it, keep your faith, and keep a commitment to serve, good things can happen. Not only to him, he had a remarkable life, but you'll do good work for your fellow man as well. President Bush certainly did that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

Ludicrous ; Washington DC parlor game, this is the thing that the American people need to understand about Washington DC : It makes stuff up. It was wholly unfounded.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

There are lots of things that we want to find paths forward on together, lots of places Americans are at risk.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I know many of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham think it's time to pack up and abandon the role we've been playing since the previous administration. I'm here to tell Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham why that's a bad call, the more support from you we get, the better chance we have of ending the conflict and stopping the suffering that none of us are happy about.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I was asked to be here and here I am.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

We have affirmed our shared commitment to addressing the current challenge, the caravans will not be permitted to enter The Post.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

Saudi Arabia'll take us probably a handful more weeks before we have enough evidence to actually put those sanctions in place, but I think we'll be able to get there.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

The time is now for the cessation of hostilities, including missile and UAV strikes from Houthi-controlled areas into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Subsequently, Coalition air strikes must cease in all populated areas in Yemen, we've got to move toward a peace effort here, and you can't say we're going to do it sometime in the future. We need to be doing this in the next 30 days. We've admired this problem for long enough down there, and I believe that Saudi Arabia and the Emirates are ready, and in fact had the Houthis not walked out of the last effort that Martin Griffiths had going, we'd probably be on our way there right now.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

This is certainly not the last step, we will continue to do our own efforts, our own fact finding, we want to make sure everyone understands that the United States believes that the killing of Jamal Khashoggi wasn't anything other than a horrific act.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

We want to make sure everyone understands that the United States believes that the killing of Jamal Khashoggi wasn't anything other than a horrific act.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

This is an organized effort to come through and violate the sovereignty of Mexico City, we're prepared to do all that we can to support the decisions that Mexico City makes about how they're going to address this very serious and important issue to their country.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

We have a long strategic relationship with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, they're an important partner. We need to be mindful of that as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

My assessment from these meetings is that there is serious commitment to determine all the facts and ensure accountability, including accountability for Saudi Arabia's senior leaders or senior officials.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

We call on the government of Saudi Arabia to support a thorough investigation of Mr. Khashoggi's disappearance and to be transparent about the results of that investigation.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

It is imperative for members of United Nations to take United Nations to heart, enforcement of Security Council sanctions must continue vigorously and without fail until we realize the fully, final, verified denuclearization. The members of Security Council must set the example on that effort, and we must all hold each other accountable.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

We're going to get an outcome which forces China to behave in a way that, if you want to be a power, a global power -- transparency, rule of law, you don't steal intellectual property.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

I misspoke there, the President runs this government. His statements are in fact U.S. policy.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

I think I responded to everything that you said, senator, no you didn’t.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

We’ll let the world decide, i was asking if there was some rhyme or reason that this type of distrust or discord will be created. And I know you’re not going to answer the question. I’m trying to make a point as to why.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

It’s not for me to disclose the contents of those conversations.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

I think the President’s been unambiguously clear.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

United Nations's really pretty straightforward, right, and United Nations's not my -- United Nations's not my description of what needs to take place. Chairman Kim made a promise. Chairman Kim told not only President President Trump, but( South Korean) President Moon that Chairman Kim was prepared to denuclearize. The scope and scale of that is agreed to. The North Koreans understand what The North Koreans means. There's no mistake about what the scope of denuclearization looks like.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

The United States reminds every United Nations member state of The United States responsibility to stop illegal ship-to-ship transfers, and we urge United Nations to step up United Nations enforcement efforts as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I have great confidence that the Russians will try and undermine western democracy in 2017, 2018, 2019 and for an awfully long time, it is our responsibility as leaders of United States government to do all that we can to deter United States from interfering with us, not only in our elections, but more broadly as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

The President understands what Russia did in our elections of 2016, and The President has empowered each of us to make sure that it doesn't happen again in the 2018 or 2020 elections here in United States as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

It wasn't just the 2016 election. Somehow America seems to forget the history of Russia's efforts to undermine western democracy for decades now.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

No one’s been closer to that than I have, so everyone else is simply speculating about what’s taken place today. I’ve been there, the North Koreans have consistently reaffirmed their commitment -- the commitment that Chairman Kim made to President President Trump, no one was under any illusion that this was going to happen in hours, or days, or even weeks. It’s going to take time to achieve this outcome. We hope for a brighter future for the North Korean people, and if Chairman Kim continues to follow through on Chairman Kim commitment -- the people of North Korea will have a brighter future.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Latest Headlines

What they've asked us to do is review how we get there and the timeline for that, i'm very confident they understand.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

What they've asked us to do is review how we get there and the timeline for that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

There will be a handful of countries that come to the United States and ask for relief from that. We'll consider it.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Business

Now is the time for all of us, the State Department and others to deliver, to implement the agreement between President Trump and Chairman Kim, to think this would happen in the course of a handful of hours would have been ludicrous.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

To think this would happen in the course of a handful of hours would have been ludicrous.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

The strategy sends a clear message to the Taliban that they cannot wait us out.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago World

If we think only in one day a 40 year-crisis can be ended we are being unrealistic.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago World

An American role will be important in this, but we can't run the peace talks, we can't settle this from the outside.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago World

We're counting on all the actors in the region to be supportive of that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago World

This same act 45 (years) ago built trust between our nations. Today we have a strong relationship, dPRK committed to repatriate remains as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

Just as was the case with Vietnam, repatriation of U.S. remains from the DPRK will be important not just to American families, but to building trust between the United States and North Korea as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

The fact that we're co-operating – and not fighting – is proof that when a country decides to create a brighter future for itself alongside the The United States, we follow through on American promises, the miracle could be your miracle.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

The United States has been clear on what we seek from North Korea..., the choice now lies with North Korea and its people.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

The miracle could be your miracle.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

Look, people are going to make stray comments after meetings, if I paid attention to what the press said, I’d go nuts, and I refuse to do that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Latest Headlines

I am determined to achieve the commitment that President Trump made, i’m counting on Chairman Kim to be determined to follow through on the commitment that he made.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Latest Headlines

The establishment of peaceful relations between the countries, increased security assurances to North Korea and its people, and finally, denuclearization, each of those needs to be conducted in parallel … and we need to work on those efforts simultaneously.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Latest Headlines

The settlement of the outstanding issues of concern surrounding North Korea, including the nuclear, missile and abduction issues, will be extremely important for Japan and also extremely important for peace and stability in the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

These are complicated issues but North Korea made progress on almost all of the central issues. Some places a great deal of progress, other places there's still more work to be done.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

So the work that we do, the path toward complete denuclearization, building a relationship between our two countries, is vital for a brighter North Korea and the success that our two presidents demand of us.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

Our leaders made commitments at the Singapore Summit on the complete denuclearization of North Korea and outlined what a transformed US-DPRK relationship could look like, since the summit, the consultations have continued. On this trip I'm seeking to fill in some details on those commitments and continue the momentum towards implementation of what the two leaders promised each other and the world. I expect that the DPRK is ready to do the same.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

On this trip I'm seeking to fill in some details on those commitments and continue the momentum toward implementation of what the two leaders promised each other and the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

We have observed China not enforcing control over their cross-border areas as vigorously as they were six or 12 months ago.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago World

We've been pretty unambiguous in our conversations about what we mean when we say complete denuclearization.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

Make no mistake, President Donald Trump agrees Russia interfering in our election is something President Donald Trump simply can not do, i don't think he would take any umbrage with that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Make no mistake, President Donald Trump agrees Russia interfering in our election is something President Trump and President Putin simply can not do, i don't think President Donald Trump would take any umbrage with that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

I'm confident what( Trump) intended there was,' we did reduce the threat,' i don't think there's any doubt about that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago World

I'm not prepared to talk about the details of the discussions that are taking place.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago World

Halting a clearly-defined list of weapons activities should be the first step in negotiations.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I will say that there are understandings that have been put together prior to the summit, some that took place when the president was in Singapore that I think put us on the right trajectory so that we can build out a framework for success.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

There always will be challenges and there is work to do, but none of this could have happened without the commitment of the two senior leaders.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

I am not going to put a timeline on it, whether that's two months, six months, we are committed to moving forward in an expeditious moment to see if we can achieve what both leaders set out to do.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

We hope that we will have an ongoing process of making progress.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Wholly separate from if they spin a couple of extra centrifuges, if they began to move to a weapons program, this is something the entire world would find unacceptable and we'd end up down a path that I don't think is in the best interests of Iran.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

Since 1975, The United States has accepted more than 3.3 million refugees for permanent resettlement - more than any other country in the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

As President Ghani emphasized in his statement to the Afghan people, peace talks by necessity would include a discussion of the role of international actors and forces, the United States is prepared to support, facilitate, and participate in these discussions.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago World

There's a lot of work between here and there, my team is already doing it. I'll likely travel back before too terribly long.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

It shows what North Korea could be like, there's a lot of work to make that, but President Trump is committed to delivering on that part of the bargain as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

The experience of Brexit -- which is ongoing -- and of the European Union, shows that it is difficult to recover economic independence once it's relinquished, it also shows that the economic policy that centralize power diminish the free market capacity for wealth creation.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

For too long, America has allowed the free trade framework to become distorted to the advantages of countries other than the United States, remember that our diplomacy puts American workers and American businesses first.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

This isn't just China.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

As President Ghani emphasized in President Ghani statement to the Afghan people, peace talks by necessity would include a discussion of the role of international actors and forces, the United States is prepared to support, facilitate, and participate in these discussions.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

I asked the Chinese to continue to cooperate with us and figure out how it happened, how it came to be and to work with us to conduct an investigation sufficient that we can prevent it from happening again.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

China has reaffirmed its commitment to honoring the U.N. Security Council resolutions. Those have mechanisms for relief contained in them, and we agreed that at the appropriate time that those would be considered, but we have made very clear that the sanctions and the economic relief that North Korea will receive will only happen after the full denuclearization, the complete denuclearization of North Korea.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

They made real commitments to denuclearize. Each of them. And President Trump made a commitment that he would provide security assurances that were commensurate with that, those are firm commitments that the two leaders made and an understanding of the program is a piece of what will ultimately lead to our capacity to verify that full and complete denuclearization has actually taken place.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

It could be the case that our effort won't ... work but we are determined to set the conditions so that we can right this failure of decades and reset the conditions for North Korea's participation in the community of nations.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

James Mattis made very clear that the condition precedent for the exercises not to proceed was productive, good-faith negotiations being ongoing and at the point it's concluded that they're not, the President's commitment to not have those joint exercises take place will no longer be in effect, james Mattis was unambiguous about that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

It's in the statement. You're just wrong about that. ... Because complete encompasses verifiable and irreversible. I suppose you could argue semantics, but let me assure you that it's in the document.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

It's in the statement. You're just wrong about that... Because complete encompasses verifiable and irreversible. I suppose you could argue semantics, but let me assure you that it's in the document.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

I am ... confident they understand that there will be in-depth verification, not all of that work appeared in the final document. But lots of other places where there were understandings reached, we couldn't reduce them to writing, so that means there's still some work to do, but there was a great deal of work done that is beyond what was seen in the final document that will be the place that we will begin when we return to our conversations.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

Not all of that work appeared in the final document. But lots of other places where there were understandings reached, we couldn't reduce them to writing, so that means there's still some work to do, but there was a great deal of work done that is beyond what was seen in the final document that will be the place that we will begin when we return to our conversations.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Politics

North Korea has previously confirmed to us its willingness to denuclearize and we are eager to see if those words prove sincere.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

We're prepared to provide certainty that denuclearization isn't something that ends badly for them, we are prepared to make security assurances that are different and unique than America has been willing to provide previously. We think this is necessary and appropriate.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

We are prepared to make security assurances that are different and unique than America has been willing to provide previously. We think this is necessary and appropriate.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

United States has been fooled before. There's no doubt about United States. Many presidents previously have signed off on pieces of paper only to find that North Korea either didn't promise what Donald Trump thought they had or actually reneged on their promises, we'll each have to ensure that we do the things, we take the actions necessary to follow through on those commitments and when we do we'll have a verified deal and if we can get that far we will have a historic change.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

There are always irritants in relationships. I am very confident the relationships between our countries -- the United States and the G7 countries -- will continue to move forward on a strong basis.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

It's actually the possession of those nuclear weapons that create the greatest risk to North Korea.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

I don't want to get too far into the details, but when you think about complete denuclearization, it would certainly be all of their sites, not just those that have been declared, so we've got to make sure that it's complete.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

They've relied historically on their nuclear program to provide their security, and what we're asking them to do is to stand that on its head, to understand that it's actually the possession of those nuclear weapons that create the greatest risk to North Korea.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

The precise nature of the injuries suffered by the affected personnel, and whether a common cause exists for all cases, has not yet been established.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago World

As Liu Xiaobo wrote in his 2010 Nobel Peace Prize speech, delivered in absentia, 'the ghosts of June 4th have not yet been laid to rest', we join others in the international community in urging the Chinese government to make a full public accounting of those killed, detained or missing.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

They'll have to choose a path that is fundamentally different than the one that their country has proceeded on for decades. It should not be to anyone's surprise that there will be moments along the way, that this won't be straightforward.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

This is going to be a process that will take days and weeks to work our way through.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

It does no good if we are in a place where we don't think there is real opportunity to place them together, we have made real progress toward that in the last 72 hours.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago World

This is going to be a process that will take days and weeks to work our way through, there will be tough points. There will be difficult times.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago World

Our two countries face a pivotal moment in our relationship in which it could be nothing short of tragic to let this opportunity go to waste.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

We find that a very unconstructive move... It's unhelpful to mutual understanding between China and United States. We hope United States will change such a negative mindset.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

Looking forward to meeting with Kim Yong Chol in New York to discuss @Potus potential summit with Chairman Kim. We are committed to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula @StateDept.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

Religious freedom is in the American bloodstream, the release of the report is critical to our mission to defend religious liberty, and brings to light the state of religious freedom all over the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 9 months ago Politics

The United States stands steadfast in support of the Venezuelan people and their efforts to return to democracy.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

So I think North Korean guest workers have been continuing that even up through today, as North Korean guest workers were contemplating the June 12th summit.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

My sense was that we hadn't taken much of a pause.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I hope we are able to quickly get back to that place, but ultimately Chairman Kim will have that decision to make for Chairman Kim, as the President said, we welcome their call, their outreach, to head back down that path.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

A bad deal is not an option, if the right deal is not on the table, we will respectfully walk away.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago World

We have made zero concessions to Chairman Kim and have no intention to do so, our posture will not change until we see credible steps taken toward the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago World

Our posture will not change until we see credible steps taken toward the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago World

That's good and bad. The existing balance of power is not a good one in its own right.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago World

We notified China of what took place as best we know it and they have responded in a way that is exactly the right response, we're working together to resolve (this) ... I hope we can figure it out.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

I have to say there is more work to do, we have not been able to achieve deterrence, effective deterrence of some of these efforts of the Russians.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

We work diligently on it each day we reduce threats, we take them from the battlefield, we take them from the economic sphere, we reduce them diplomatically, we work hard at it every day but I will never share with you that I believe we have accomplished that to 100 % certainty.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

This administration has taken enormous efforts to push back on Russia that have not been done in an awfully long time either here in the United States or frankly from our partners who are even more threatened by Russia than we are in Europe and elsewhere.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

We are at risk in 2018 and 2020... we are always at risk.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I'm confident that there is a set of overlapping values and interests here that will drive us to the same conclusion about the need to respond to the Islamic Republic of Iran's threats to the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

Our demands on Iran are not unreasonable: give up your program.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

Should they choose to go back, should they begin to enrich, we are fully prepared to respond to that as well.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

At the end of the day the Iranian people will get to make a choice about their leadership.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

The sting of sanctions will only grow more painful if the regime does not change course from the unacceptable and unproductive path it has chosen for itself and the people of Iran, these will be the strongest sanctions in history by the time we are done.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

Until the Maduro regime restores a democratic path in Venezuela through free, fair, and transparent elections, the government faces isolation from the international community.Sunday’s process was choreographed by a regime too unpopular and afraid of its own people to risk free elections and open competition. the United States stands with democratic nations in support of the Venezuelan people and will take swift economic and diplomatic actions to support the restoration of their democracy.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 10 months ago Politics

Strategically, the Obama administration made a bet that the deal would spur Iran to stop its rogue-state actions and conform to international norms, that bet was a loser with massive repercussions for all people living in Middle East.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

We will ensure freedom of navigation on the waters in the region. We will work to prevent and counteract any Iranian malign cyber activity. We will track down Iranian operatives and their Hezbollah proxies operating around the world and crush them, iran will never again have carte blanche to dominate Middle East.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

We understand our re-imposition of sanctions and the coming pressure campaign on The Iranian regime will pose financial and economic difficulties for a number of our friends, but you should know that we will hold those doing prohibited business in Iran to account.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

We will continue to work with our allies to counter the regime's destabilizing activities in the region, block their financing of terror, and address Iran's proliferation of missiles and other advanced weapons that threaten peace and stability, we will also ensure Iran has no possible path to a nuclear weapon -- ever.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Sanctions are going back in full effect, and new ones are coming.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Sabika's death and that of the other victims is heartbreaking and will be mourned deeply both here in the United States, and in Pakistan.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago US News

We had good conversations, substantive conversations that involved deep complex challenges.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

If North Korea takes bold action to quickly denuclearize, United States is prepared to work with North Korea to achieve prosperity on the par with our South Korean friends, if Chairman Kim chooses the right path, there is a future brimming with peace and prosperity for the North Korean people.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Top News

If North Korea takes bold action to quickly denuclearize, the United States is prepared to work with North Korea to achieve prosperity on the par with our South Korean friends, if Chairman Kim chooses the right path, there is a future brimming with peace and prosperity for the North Korean people.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago World

If Chairman Kim chooses the right path, there is a future brimming with peace and prosperity for the North Korean people.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago World

It's a big undertaking for sure, but one that Chairman Kim and I had the opportunity to have a good, sound discussion on, so that I think we had a pretty good understanding between our two countries what the shared objectives are.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago World

That part is behind us for sure, and we had a chance to talk substantively about what we intend to be on the agenda, and also how we're going to begin to coordinate in the days ahead. ... Both sides are confident that we will set the conditions for a successful meeting between the two leaders.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

The second piece is, we also want to make sure what our expectations are not, we are not going to head down the path we headed down before.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

We've been asking for the release of these detainees for 17 months, we'll talk about it again. It'd be a great gesture if they'd agree to do so.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Now, how much of Trumps CIA is Mike Pompeo on many occasions ? We don't know. Removing Mike Pompeo on many occasions raises that legitimate question.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

My team and I will be unrelenting in confronting those threats, we will deploy tough diplomacy when necessary to put the interest of the American people first.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

We are committed to the permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program and to do so without delay.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

My mission is to lead you, america can't achieve its objectives, absent you all.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I'm confident that I know who you are, you chose to be a Foreign Service officer, or a civil servant, or to come work here in many other capacities, and to do so because you're patriots and great Americans and because you want to be an important part of America's face to the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

One of the first rules is don't talk down to people, right, so I'll speak to you all right up here, exactly.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

They may have been demoralized, but they seemed in good spirits, they are hopeful that State Department will get State Department swagger back, that we will be out doing the things that they came onboard at State Department to do : to be professional, to deliver diplomacy, American diplomacy around the world.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

America can't achieve its objectives, absent you all.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I am looking forward to helping you all achieve that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I know we will deliver for this President and this country.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

It's an important day for the President's first trip to this important place.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

I talked about getting back our swagger, and I'll fill in what I mean by that, but it's important. The United States diplomatic corps needs to be in every corner, every stretch of the world, executing missions on behalf of this country and it is my humble, noble undertaking to achieve that.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

United States are determined to make sure it never possesses a nuclear weapon. The Iran deal in its current form does not provide that assurance, we will continue to work with our European allies to fix that deal. But if a deal can not be reached, the [ United States ] President has said that he will leave that deal.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

I talked about getting the release of the American detainees, and then we talked a great deal about what it might look like, what this complete, verifiable, irreversible mechanism might look like. And so, when the two leaders, the only people that can make those decisions, will be in a room together, they can set the course.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 10 months ago Politics

There's been no decision, so the team is working and I am sure we will have lots of conversations to deliver what the president has made clear.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 10 months ago Politics

There's been no decision, so the team is working and I am sure we will have lots of conversations to deliver what the president has made clear, absent a substantial fix, absent overcoming the flaws of the deal, he is unlikely to stay in that deal.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 11 months ago World

Absent a substantial fix, absent overcoming the flaws of the deal, he is unlikely to stay in that deal.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 11 months ago World

The President has been clear -- absent a substantial fix, absent overcoming the shortcomings, the flaws of the deal -- The President is unlikely to stay in that deal past this May.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I don't want to say anything about the meeting itself.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

The economic pressure that has been put in place by this global effort that President Donald Trump has led has led President Donald Trump to believe that it is in President Donald Trump best interests to come to the table and talk about de-nuclearization.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

In the event it fails.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

The work that is being done here today is invaluable and our objectives are important and this mission means a lot to the United States of America.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on Reuters 11 months ago World

I don't recall what Mike Pompeo asked me that day precisely.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

America is uniquely blessed, and with those blessings comes a duty to lead, as I have argued throughout my time in public service, if we do not lead the calls for democracy, prosperity, and human rights around the world, who will ? No other nation is equipped with the same blend of power and principle.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

We are the world’s finest espionage service, we are going to go out there and do our damnedest to steal secrets on behalf of the American people. And I wanted to get back on our front foot.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

I haven’t seen a significant decrease in their activity.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

Well, it's classic Clinton, right? When you find out you got a problem, you deflect, you deny, you create a contretemp where there really is none. Frankly, it's pretty clear who invited the Russians to do damage to America, and it was Hillary Clinton. She put classified information on a private server, inviting the Chinese, the Iranians, the Russians, all have access to it. I hope they didn't get it, but even the former director of the CIA said he thinks they probably did. So, the person who's put American national security risk isn't Donald Trump, it's Hillary Clinton.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We can now see the fix was in for President Obama and Secretary Clinton to make sure that Bernie Sanders would never be elected. That's embarrassing to many Democrats, so they're flailing about trying to find separate storyline to deflect from the true substance of what was in those emails.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We ca n’t run the risk of more intelligence that puts Americans at risk of being exposed.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Politics

We are going to work hard along with our colleagues to figure out who the right person that we can afford is. I do want to make sure that the person who is the right speaker is committed to advancing what America needs -- and to me, that's a conservative Renaissance where the House of Representatives does what the American people demanded of it, if it turns out I'm the right person to do it, I'd be honored to.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I was incredibly surprised to learn there were components of the deal that Congress was not going to be privy to.

– Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

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