02/23/2010
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"Senator Clinton committed President Obama to enhancing our foreign assistance architecture to make it more nimble, innovative, and effective."
"Success should be measured against the Millennium Development Goals, which are the world's agreed goals for reducing extreme poverty and breaking the poverty trap."
"I believe that our aid program should be targeted, based on explicit and quantitative goals, and with an explicit goal of enabling countries to break the poverty trap and thereby end their dependence ..."
"The question is not whether our nation can or should lead but how it will lead in the 21st century. Rigid ideologies and old formulas don't apply. We need a new mindset about how America will use its ..."