02/15/2017
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"If we are going to have any success in dealing with ISIL and with extremism in the Middle East, we have to make sure that our allies are on the same page as we are."
"I think that we have--we did a very good job, I think, of assembling a coalition and stopping the immediate crisis."
"A comprehensive strategy, I think, has to have that component of political reforms and everything else, or else it is just spitting into the wind."
"I share that concern. And I have heard directly from industry that, given the significant drawdown in R&D, that they are struggling to survive in many fields."