We Have To Know Who We Are

I Have A Range, And I'd Much Rather Do Things The Nice Way Than The Hard Way, But Sometimes You Have To Use All The Tools At Your Disposal.

If You're Trying To Get Something Done, There Will Always Be People Who Don't Want To See You Get Something Done, Or Who Have A Stake In The Status Quo. And If They Approach That Through Ad Hominem Criticism Of You, You've Got To Have Enough Confidence And Thickness Of Skin To Be Able To Endure.

There Are No Cookie-cutter Solutions That You Can Apply From One Circumstance To Another. They're Different. Our Interests, As Implicated, Are Different. The Tools We Have At Our Disposal Are Different.

I Have Been To Libya And Walked The Streets Of Benghazi Myself.

The United States Really Only Accounts For About 3 Percent Of The Economic Engagement With Russia. Europe Is 40 Percent, And So Europe's Contribution To This Pressure Is Far More Than Symbolic. It's Very Practical. And That's One Of The Many Reasons Why We Have Worked Hard To Remain In Close Coordination With Our European Partners.