03/01/2011
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"This is not an ideological battle, it is a battle for civil rights."
"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 hope they do, because I think it's necessary to protect all that we've given there to achieve what has been achieved."
"We can't simply--if I can use probably a poorly phrased metaphor here--but, if we were a rubber band and have been stretched over the last 10 years, we can't let ourselves simply contract back to our ..."