we found that actually wasn't so effective. We were not the best messenger in this space.

What we are doing, instead, is trying to identify, elevate, and build the capacity of local credible voices.

Our ultimate success in the fight against violent extremism will be determined by our ability to hold fast to the very values that terrorists oppose: our capacity for reason, for wisdom, and for compassion.

It is not the violence, because that's gone. It's two things: it's an absence of access to school and education for the kids, and it's a lack of access to employment, to jobs, for the parents.

Your leadership is helping to ensure that in their very acts of terror, violent extremists are precipitating exactly what they hope to destroy, a world a little bit more closely bound together in defense of dignity, justice, and peace.

So we're looking at innovative solutions to do that.

We have to find ways to create what amounts to a win-win solution, that is, the host communities have to benefit along with the refugees.

The multi-sector programming is vitally important. We have to have these interconnections, and that's exactly what we're trying to do.

military efforts alone are insufficient.

Congress will have a vote and, indeed, keeping that Sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the Iranians.

Well, of course, if there is no deal Iran could rush to a nuclear capacity and a nuclear weapon tomorrow, which I imagine is exactly what would spark an arms race.

The only reason that they are there is in order to relieve some of that pressure.