05/20/2014
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"Economic opportunity and security go hand in hand."
"It's one very discrete area where perhaps we can have some--play some greater role in making it even slightly more difficult for Hezbollah to help Assad as he murders his own people."
"Emboldened by instability within Iraq's Government in the searing conflict, al-Qaeda affiliated--the number of al-Qaeda affiliated fighters in Iraq has now reached levels not seen since 2006."
"My concern is that we are creating more risk than already exists in the program that we do not even need."