Robert Joseph State Quotations

The Europeans are solidly with us. Japan and Australia are with us. But most importantly, India has voted twice with the United States and the IAEA against Iran. And now Russia and China have done so.

Reorganizations are never easy. They inevitably mean change. The reorganization ... was essential to better position us to further the president's strategy against WMD proliferation and (Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's) emphasis on transformational diplomacy.

A nuclear-armed Iran would represent a direct threat to U.S. forces and allies in the region, the greater Middle East, Europe and Asia, and eventually to the United States itself. At a minimum, it could seek to use nuclear weapons as a powerful tool of intimidation and blackmail.