07/13/2011
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"I will confirm for you that, yes, our budget is larger than the next 11 combined, including China."
"I want to discuss our own complicity in contributing to the financial engine powering Putin's destabilizing behavior, our addiction to Russian oil in the United States."
"My concern here is that we understand this and that we start to think about how we can use those oil imports that go to the United States as a weapon back at Russia as well."
"I think it is important, again, that when Joe Biden became president the pipeline was over 90 percent complete already."