05/24/2017
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"We need to take this as a lesson, make sure that it guides what our decisions are in the future, which is we should be siding with the oppressed rather than trying to curry favor with the oppressor."
"I oppose that whole concept."
"Well, I was referring to what caused that situation to arise was that there was a truce between the--Abkhazia and Ossetia were trying to win their independence."
"We need that cooperation. We need cooperation when it comes to--if we would have had a higher level of cooperation we probably could have averted the bombing at the Boston marathon."