01/21/2009
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"We are very serious about negotiating and are willing to go lower, so long as the Russians are as well."
"The idea that Somalia is just a failed state somewhere over there... is a construct that we adopt at our peril."
"We have to give a lot of thought to this and there's an enormous number of bad options that have to be sorted through."
"I think that your cautions are extremely well taken."