There was a reluctance to use any Islam, Islamist, Islamic, anything that sort of gave our enemy the title of being affiliated with the Muslim religion.

How do we find allies in the Muslim, Sunni Muslim world in particular, since these groups are Sunni?

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 370, nays 58, not voting 5, as follows: [Roll No. 618] YEAS--370 Abraham Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Amodei…

Secretary Clinton has testified here for longer than she did in the previous two testimonies on this subject combined.

We've spent the $4.7 million that we have spent on this.

I don't really think it should have been formed in the first place, but what we've heard here is...

We cannot succeed in the current national security environment unless we build partner capacity.

Building up the level of cooperation between the State Department and the Department of Defense is very important.

I think building that partner capacity and finding allies who can help us is a critical piece of it.

I think every military commander's first instinct is to say: Give me another 30,000 troops, and I can save the situation.

That partnership on our side between defense, development, and diplomacy is the building block to successfully build the partnerships with the local countries.

As far as how we reform development policy, I think the best thing we could do is centralize it.