11/29/2011
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"this might be one of the big areas that we would go ahead and address quickly on a bipartisan basis, because there is bipartisan support for infrastructure."
"I agree that the general concept, the idea that we need to focus more of our resources on the Asia-Pacific, was the right one."
"I think the previous administration was preoccupied, it became preoccupied with other problems in the Middle East, with Russia, continuing constraints on defense spending."
"I am not confident that either of those two conditions would actually be obtained."