It's extremely important for the stability of this region that Egypt be able to develop a strong democracy for the future and meet the aspirations of the Egyptian people.
We certainly have gone after their leadership. I think we've dealt them a major blow by virtue of having taken down bin Laden and now al-Awl...
This is not a time to take the pressure off; this is a time to put the pressure on.
This individual was clearly a terrorist. And, yes, he was a citizen, if you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist. And that means that we have ...
We had always had tremendous concern that after getting bin Laden that someone like Awlaki was a primary target because of his continuing ef...
I am committed to protecting the U.S. defense industrial base and our national security interests.
I made very clear to them that that was unacceptable.
I want to caution strongly against further cuts to defense as we go through that, particularly with the mechanism that's been built into the...
I want to be clear that, obviously, any future security relationship in Iraq will be different from the one that we've had since 2003.
It is clear that achieving these savings will be very hard and require difficult tradeoffs for the Department and the country.
My goal is to make that risk acceptable.