11/09/2009
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"As a founding member and the driving force behind the World Heritage Convention of 1972, the United States remains committed to advancing the Convention's ideals to preserve our world's outstanding cu..."
"We are trying to come in with some development capacity, governance, leadership capacity, and creating the kind of force that could help to provide stability."
"Right now, we don't need a Democratic foreign policy or a Republican foreign policy."
"I am going to be very brief with my opening statement. I want to begin by, first of all, just telling you what a privilege it is for me to lead this extraordinary department."