What we need to do is be sure that there is a parity here among all the nations that gain from this security apparatus that we have.

I hope we ask very aggressively and assertively, because of the importance of appropriate partnerships in terms of who contributes to the partnership.

It is hard to draw an analogy other than to say that trying to put together something on a stop-gap basis might get us through 2013 but does not position us for what we might do years beyond and particularly with an aging stockpile.

It is critical in both homeland security, homeland functions in terms of natural disasters.

You cannot fight cyber warfare with drop cords.

We are faced right now with the President of Iran and President Chavez of Venezuela, two peas in a pod.

today I pay tribute to four American heroes who embody the spirit of what it means to serve your fellow man. Those heroes are the four Army chaplains who served on board the United States Transport Ship Dorchester in 1943--Methodist…

We have got to have a strong presence there representing the United States as he continues to try to reform that country.

Haiti continues to need a lot of help. They are still coming through the ravages of the earthquake.

I think David's passion for poverty, to fight it, and preventable disease--I think it is remarkable.

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The fact that she has been there in Liberia, this little struggling country headed by a woman, Mrs. Sirleaf, and how she has tried to take that country that was so, so accustomed to corruption and start turning it and how she has been…