01/22/2013
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"The decision by our NATO allies, which the United States fully supported, reached at Lisbon 2 years ago, to begin a transition to end combat presence in 2014 helped to increase the attention paid to t..."
"What you are doing in Africa I think has been a case study of how American assistance can change a continent."
"It is not an easy time to be in either your position or mine, looking out at the world that is so rapidly changing."
"There was no easy answer to whether it was going to work out well or not, but it was, from our perspective, necessary to keep faith with what the agreement had been."