06/29/2009
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"Our challenges may be new, the instruments with which we meet them may be new, but those values upon which our success depends, honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, l..."
"No society can achieve its potential when half the population is denied the opportunity to achieve theirs."
"The future of Afghanistan belongs to its government and its people. And I welcome the clear vision presented by President Karzai and the Afghan Government today for unlocking Afghanistan's economic po..."
"As Secretary Clinton said during remarks at the Virginia Military Academy in April, in Iraq, we have completed the largest transition from military to civilian leadership since the Marshall Plan."