03/24/2009
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"We want people to have access. We want people to be empowered and to grow and be able to lift themselves up."
"I have great misgivings about delivering the women of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban."
"This is not the way this country was meant to operate."
"That's the only power I have left. If they are not going to come in and talk to us and not give us evidence, then I have to take that away to the degree that I possibly can."