Linda Thomas-Greenfield actually said...

"the election of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was a welcome signal that room for political progress in Somalia was opening."

"One of our primary goals is to build a professional army there that is able to provide security and is professional and has capacity to respond to al-Shabaab."

"Our primary goal is that there will be a strong federal framework that will allow the various components and various groups outside the central government to participate in a process of governing the ..."

"we feel responsible for those taxpayer dollars, and in order to ensure that those dollars are going to where they need to go, we need to be able to get out in the field and monitor"