08/23/2007
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"My only plea is let's not take a cleaver to it. Let's try to be as surgical as possible in figuring out what is really in America's national security interests, how we prioritize."
"The evidence is overwhelming that it is economic concerns that are driving so much of what we're seeing."
"I would like to be able to get back to you, because some of those matters are not in my bailiwick."
"Well, I think that the experience that the world remembers from Iran is a very sobering lesson."