The Notion That I Had Become A

I May Not Be Able To Work For Anybody Else Again. I May Just Have To Work For Myself.

I Was Working With A Number Of African Heads Of State. And After Their Initial Surprise, I Think Many Of Them Just Treated Me As They Would Anybody Else. They Had To Deal With Me As A Representative Of The United States Of America, And The United States Of America Was Too Important To Be Dismissed Or Ignored On Any Grounds.

The Notion That -- Which Some People Are Trying To Suggest, That By Asking For The Identity Of An American Person, That Is The Same As Leaking It, Is Completely False. There's No Equivalence Between So-called Unmasking And Leaking.

People Are Consuming The News That Is Comfortable For Them, Not Necessarily The News That Is Real Or That They Need To Know.

We Must Be Honest In Acknowledging That Neither Germany Nor The Us Has The Luxury Of Assuming That We Can Skate By On Half-measures In Afghanistan And Pakistan And Not Risk Suffering The Consequences.