Hillary Clinton

The foreign aid, diplomacy budget of the United States of America is approximately 1 percent.

We tripled the number of civilians going to Afghanistan.

We will go backward in the numbers of personnel that we have.

What I'm worried about, Senator, is that with this very large cut coming out of the House, there will be pressure for us to try to meet as much of our mission in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to the detriment of the entire rest of the…

The more we can reduce such impacts, the more success we will have in reducing climate change-induced internal conflicts.

By cutting us, we are also diminishing that message and those values, which are really important to the final outcome.

It is my goal that we better integrate our civilian and military capacities, which is why I'm so adamant that you can't talk about national security and leave out the State Department and USAID.

But one thing I know for sure is where we are no longer present, others will be.

One of our biggest concerns is Libya descending into chaos and becoming a giant Somalia.

It is a whole of government effort, and we are literally working as hard as we can every single day.

Clearly we want this to be Afghan-led, but the United States has to play a major role.

I just think we need to have a debate about it.

Well, Senator, thank you for your leadership on this important issue, because this is a direct deadly threat to our troops and also to the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Well, we've been consistently saying that any political party that participates in an electoral process must respect democratic institutions, the rights of minorities, including religious minorities, has to be supportive of independent…

We're slowly I think making some progress.

We are trying to make it a major part of our human rights reporting.

The U.S. policy has not sufficiently prioritized human rights, including religious freedom, in Afghanistan.

The Arab League just issued a statement today, early today, saying that they disapproved and rejected any foreign interference within Libya on behalf of the opposition.

The tough issues about how and whether there would be any intervention to assist those who are opposing Libya is very controversial within Libya and within the Arab community.

I think there's a grand bargain to be had here on trade.

Yet we're watching Colombia sign free trade deals with Canada, with the European Union.

The countries in our hemisphere are our biggest trading partners, our biggest energy suppliers.

I hope there is an appetite for a bipartisan agreement that will deal with our debt without undermining our strength.

I clearly agree that the United States must be strong at home in order to maintain our strength abroad.

It is important that we continue planning so that we'd be ready if there is an opportunity to work with this new government.