01/30/2013
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"What we're saying when we talk about making America great, we're stepping aside, we're letting other countries fill the vacuum, and making the United States less great."
"The idea that putting America first requires withdrawal from the world is simply wrongheaded."
"The administration's proposal to slash approximately 30 percent from the State Department and foreign assistance budget signals an American retreat, leaving a vacuum and making us far less safe."
"I look at these as an integrated problem, not as simply one item here or one item there."