If we were to leave before the job is done, if we were to allow this young democracy to be overwhelmed by the extremists and the radicals, people in the Middle East would say, 'What's the word of the United States worth?'
Remarks at a Reception for Senatorial Candidate Jefferson B. Sessions III in Mobile, Alabama
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