In This Day And Age, The U.s.

For The United States To Recommit Itself To The Obligation That We Undertook In The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty That Many Other States Undertook, Which Was To Work Towards Disarmament And The Eventual Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons, Is Something That Manifestly Serves Our National Security Interests.

President Obama Is An Extraordinary Person To Work With And For.

The Youth Thing Never Really, From My Vantage Point, Slowed Me Down. I Think The Harder Audience For Me To Gain Acceptance From Was The Career Diplomatic Corps That Worked With And For Me In The Africa Bureau.

We Are Patriots In My Family, We Are Believers In America, We're Believers In Democracy.

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.