Programs that duplicate each other, and outdated mandates, must be streamlined, eliminated, and merged.

The United Nations has been unacceptably slow to reform.

We are not going to have economic and political freedom where no religious freedom exists.

I have seen an unwillingness at the State Department to address seriously religious freedom and religious persecution issues.

What would you do in Afghanistan?

there's maybe a degree of naivete in our State Department, that our friendliness and willingness to trust is seen in many parts of the world as weakness.

I think the advance of our vital national security interests, which include the values that we hold dear, is very important, but I absolutely believe that we cannot impose those values on other countries.

I rise today to speak on behalf of the people of the Third Congressional District of South Carolina to express our condolences to the people of Japan in the wake of the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck off the northeast coast of Japan…

I certainly believe you can win, and winning is probably a hard concept to define, but not for me.

I keep going back to what the folks in South Carolina think we should do, and that is concrete still and barbed wire, and maybe think of a simple approach.

It is my belief, General and Madame Secretary, if the Taliban believed that the American military forces... would be around for awhile providing American air power and support, it would be a demoralizing event.

From your point of view, it would be a national security expenditure.

I totally understand that. But the position that Mr. Zoellick was about to take is, I think, shared by many.

It would do enormous damage to the Afghan Government potentially, is that correct?

Just a follow up, General. Out of the 10,000 new Border Patrol agents and 20,770 plus or minus agents, how many of those are involved in the UAV program?

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