06/23/2014
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"Is it fair to say that if you are confirmed as Secretary of Defense, that the goal that you see is to turn responsibility for security of Afghanistan over to the Afghans at the end of 2014 and not to ..."
"I have the greatest confidence in your ability and your principles."
"I, too, have felt that the no-fly zone ought to be under active consideration, premised on a request from the opposition."
"I thought the President made not only a correct, but a courageous decision in 2009 in deciding to raise the number of our forces in Afghanistan by 30,000 plus."