01/14/2009
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"I am troubled that political appointees at the Department of State have sought to sideline career officials based on political loyalty."
"It has been too hard. It has been frustrating."
"I do not know what happened. I do not know if anything occurred in North Korea, other than a press conference."
"I will take backseat to no one in the United States Senate on challenging what happened at NATO, what happened at Helsinki."