I think the country faces two very serious crises right now, and they are interrelated.
we are also subsidizing our allies who are spending, on average, much less than 2 percent of their GDP.
Well, in meeting with the Defense Minister from Georgia, Khidasheli--she is the current, not the former, but the current Defense Minister--s...
Last year, the administration had Ambassador Paula Dobriansky, former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, actually pr...
I think we have to ask the question of how we can afford not to make these investments.
We are still in the bottom quartile of OECD nations when it comes to the amount of money we spend on international aid.
I think that is at the center of one of our problems, that we have to coordinate how we fund these departments.
This budget from you proposes about a 17 percent cut.
I think it would be instructive, because I think this is a function that every department over the next couple years is going to have to go ...
Are they encouraging them to get together and try to work this out politically?
That sounds like Washington, D.C. The only difference is we do not have Democratic and Republican militias.