State of Delaware Archives: on Foreign Policy

James DeMartino: Uphold a firm America first foreign policy

A: We must uphold a firm America first foreign policy and maintain the strongest military that defends our national security interests throughout the world against all enemies to ourselves and our partnering allies.

Lauren Witzke: Accept as immigrants Christians under religious persecution

A: Christians under religious persecution, and migrants under a merit-based system who come here for our values, and not our benefits.

Chris Coons: We need NATO more engaged in the Middle East

Chris Coons: Led bipartisan opposition to China's election interference

Democratic heavyweight Elizabeth Warren is a signatory to the letter, as is Chris Coons (D-DE) and Republican centrist Cory Gardner. The letter's wide spectrum of support suggests that, unlike the investigation into Russian meddling, future attempts to uncover Chinese actions in the United States may have a bipartisan character.

Chuck Boyce: UN ideas aren't the US' burden to bear alone

@ChuckBoyce Twitter response: "For too long, our country has remained the world police always being expected to clean up all the problems and pay the tab. It's time to make sure all the UN's ideas aren't the United States' responsibility and burden to bear alone."

Kevin Wade: Unwinnable situation in Afghanistan & all of Mideast

Christine O`Donnell: China could take us over monetarily before militarily

O'DONNELL: I was talking about when I was working with the humanitarian group that was going to China. We are given some security briefs about China's position with some potentially hostile nations and some security threats that my clients would be facing.

Q: You said that China has a plan to take over America, you know about this plan?

O'DONNELL: Well, they misquoted me at the time. But look at what's going on. Right now, monetarily, China could take us over monetarily before they could militarily.

COONS: It's hard for me to respond effectively, to all the different issues that my opponent has raised in previous statements, and I'll just let that stand.

Tom Carper: Keep lid on North Korea until reunification, like Germany

CARPER: Now that North Korea is where it is, we ought to talk with them and engage them directly.

TING: The reality is that we’re talking to the North Koreas all the time, formally and informally. So that channel of communication is open. The key to any of our plans succeeding in North Korea is the cooperation of China and Russia. We ought to remember how Communism dissolved in Eastern Europe. In our contingency planning, we ought to think about how people can get out of North Korea. We need to reassure China that they won’t be stuck with a million refugees. We ought to have alternatives in North Korea instead of only military solutions.

CARPER: We had a West Germany and an East Germany, and we were able to keep the lid on there long enough until they could become one country again. Our challenge with North Korea is to keep the lid on until those natural family attractions can go together and create one country.