02/14/2011
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"Well, for the committee's information, and I'm sure the members know this, that this year we're going to be 30 percent below the fiscal year 2016 number for international disaster assistance."
"Forty percent of the world's youth will be African."
"In pulling our troops out of Iraq, where we have sacrificed so much, without a comprehensive strategy to fill the vacuum of influence that is left, we would suffer a monumental loss of face."
"Investing today in stability is more cost-effective than investing later in crisis management and dealing with the violent extremism that conflict creates and attracts."