There's no doubt I'm burning fewer calories today than I was when I was able to get on the elliptical, so, yes, I knew there'd be chance that I would put some of the weight back on, and I probably have [in recent weeks]. But when I started this, I didn't have a target weight in mind. I just knew I needed to get healthier, and that's what I hope I can maintain — that mindset — for the rest of my life.

Mike Pompeo

This is for the Israelis and the Palestinians to negotiate. by Mike Pompeo

This is for the Israelis and the Palestinians to negotiate.

State Department is doing a fantastic job. I think we've delivered in a way that the Obama Administration has not delivered on Ukraine.

Coalition members must take back the thousands of foreign terrorist fighters in custody, and impose accountability for the atrocities they have perpetrated.

We will need help likewise in northeast Syria. by Mike Pompeo

We will need help likewise in northeast Syria.

In order to to restore credibility to the electoral process, all government officials and officials of any political organizations implicated in the flawed October 20 elections should step aside from the electoral process.

Although this irregular channel was well connected in Washington, it operated mostly outside of official diplomatic channels.

The Trump administration has made clear that the regime in Iran must release all missing and wrongfully detained Americans, including Robert Levinson, Xiyue Wang, Siamak Namazi, and others, we will not rest until they are reunited with their families.

We thought could divert our resources away from alliances, and our militaries. We were wrong, today, Russia – led by a former KGB officer once stationed in Dresden ? invades its neighbors and slays political opponents.

From the time that Ambassador Yovanovitch departed Ukraine until the time that Ambassador Yovanovitch came to tell me that Ambassador Yovanovitch was Ambassador Yovanovitch, I never heard Ambassador Yovanovitch say a single thing about Ambassador Yovanovitch concerns with respect to the decision that was made.

In some cases, these abuses occurred shortly after meetings with... by Mike Pompeo

In some cases, these abuses occurred shortly after meetings with senior State Department officials.

Most recently, Ms. Dawut learned her elderly father, who was reportedly detained and interrogated multiple times by Chinese authorities in Xinjiang in recent years, recently passed away under unknown circumstances.

We once again call on Beijing to cease all harassment of Uighurs living outside of China... and to allow families to communicate freely without repercussions.

The peaceful demonstrations and expressions of national unity over the last 13 days have sent a clear message. The Lebanese people want an efficient and effective government, economic reform, and an end to endemic corruption.

President Zelensky and I both share this vision of how American interests in Ukraine can be properly represented, I have every reason to think that President Zelensky's still out there, banging away at that problem set, but I will say this : we all, as human beings, can get it wrong, too.

I've watched Bill — Bill Taylor and I have talked about Ukrainian... by Mike Pompeo

I've watched Bill — Bill Taylor and I have talked about Ukrainian policy at some length.

This inquiry will proceed. Congress will perform its oversight function, The State Department will continue to do all of the things that were required to do under the law and the Constitution.

I don't think about that stuff. I work hard. I do the right thing as best I can tell every day. I try to make sure my team is similarly focused, you all talk about this noise an awful lot, that you all are fixated on this. The State Department, you should know, is not.

President Donald Trump's making the biggest mistake of President Donald Trump presidency, i hope The President will correct the message The President sending. ... It's devastating to our allies, it's going to eventually be devastating to Israel. It's going to be well received in Tehran, it's going to be well received in Moscow.

I think in a democracy you'll be held accountable. by Mike Pompeo

I think in a democracy you'll be held accountable.

My experience with The President is that The President makes decisions and then absorbs data and facts. ... The President is always very focused on what's the objective.