02/14/2011
https://www.congress.gov...
"If you look at General Mattis's biographical statement, I count, I think, at least 12 different levels of command in his career, which is really an extraordinary career."
"The diplomatic aspects have to be ones that find common cause with those nations of like-minded principles."
"There is probably no problem in that region that can be addressed by a single country, or working just with a single country."
"Turkey has been an ally of ours since the Korean war, when they fought alongside us during that difficult period."