01/27/2010
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"However, the effects of sequestration, which I strongly opposed from the beginning, are leaving many State Department functions dangerously short of funds."
"While I would have preferred to see higher funding levels for our diplomats, I will support the broad outline of the 2014 international affairs budget request."
"If the threat disappears--i.e., North Korea denuclearizes--the same imperative does not exist at that point in time for us to have that kind of robust, forward-leaning posture of defense."
"Kim Jong Un needs to understand, as I think he does, what the outcome of that conflict would be."