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If We Have To Continue To Live Under Sequestration, It Will Have A Maximum Impact On Our Ability To Fulfill The President's Strategic Guidance. We Can't Do It All. It's As Simple As That, With The Limitations Of The Budget As Severe As They Are. These Deep, Abrupt Cuts Have Forced Us To Make Decisions That Are Not In The Interest Of America.

I Believe, And Always Have, That America Must Engage - Not Retreat - In The World.

Politics Or Ideology Must Not Get In The Way Of Sound Planning.

This Is Eventually How Syria Will Be Resolved - Through A Political Settlement.

Institutions Are Imperfect. Governments Surely Are. People Are.