06/14/2011
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"The Nicaraguan people...understand the basic principles of democracy and want it."
"Latvia and Estonia are relatively young but active and influential members of NATO and the EU."
"If confirmed, my priorities on this issue will be to continue to voice U.S. objection to Russia's occupation and militarization of the separatist Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia."
"I am very pleased the President has nominated a man whose substantive knowledge, experience, and respected leadership are so well suited to this posting."