I think we have to do a better job of getting America's message, our values, across.

My only plea is let's not take a cleaver to it. Let's try to be as surgical as possible in figuring out what is really in America's national security interests, how we prioritize.

The evidence is overwhelming that it is economic concerns that are driving so much of what we're seeing.

I would like to be able to get back to you, because some of those matters are not in my bailiwick.

Well, I think that the experience that the world remembers from Iran is a very sobering lesson.

However, they increased their commitment to foreign aid, and they did so because Prime Minister Cameron said, this is how we demonstrate we're involved, we're leading, we're out there.

Significant cuts to the budget could profoundly compromise ongoing and critical efforts in those front-line states.

I informed the foreign minister in our last meeting last month that we were going to have to pursue our remedies because they have failed to respond in a satisfactory way.

the secular opposition is coming out of the trade-union movement.

The entire region is changing, and a strong, strategic American response will be essential.

the abuse of human beings in labor situations, child labor, other kinds of conditions that are just not acceptable, need to be addressed.

Unfortunately, Senator, under the fiscal year 2011 spending bill moving through the House, critical global health programs are going to be cut dramatically.

I think we have moved as fast as we responsibly could and are funding what we think of as the best bets that will actually produce the best results.

It is a nation asking for the United States' continuing support, and that will be up to this Congress and this administration to evaluate.

This integrated approach is not just how we respond to the crisis of the moment.

We've been trying to take back the airwaves in Afghanistan against Taliban.

These missions are vital to our national security, and now would be the wrong time to pull back.

We have joined the Libyan people in demanding that Qaddafi must go--now, without further violence or delay.