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We have built up, through our global engagement, a set of institutions that have been built on trust, fundamentally on trust, where allies had trust in the United States to do the right thing when it really came down to it. Ivo Daalder

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Trump believes all foreigners are playing us for suckers - he sees the world as a dark place. How can you lead alliances when you keep telling your allies they are ripping you off? Ivo Daalder

America is a country of immigrants. It's what makes America unique. Ivo Daalder

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Anybody who has been to Chicago has a very positive view. But not everybody has come to Chicago, and in many ways, Chicago is an undiscovered treasure. It punches below its weight internationally. Ivo Daalder

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President Trump is hardly the first U.S. president to call on the European allies to do more - in one form or another, every president since Harry Truman has done so. What is different this time, however, is Trump's suggestion that America's commitment to the alliance is conditional. Ivo Daalder

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Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has embarked on a systematic challenge to the West. The goal is to weaken the bonds between Europe and the United States and among E.U. members, undermine NATO's solidarity, and strengthen Russia's strategic position in its immediate neighborhood and beyond. Ivo Daalder

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I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. J. Carter Brown

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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. J. Carter Brown

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There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily. J. Carter Brown

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We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term. Jack Lew

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In the budget, the president will call for a five-year freeze on discretionary spending other than for national security. This will reduce the deficit by more than $400 billion over the next decade and bring this category of spending to the lowest share of our economy since Dwight Eisenhower was president. Jack Lew

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I think there is a shared sense of urgency in Washington on fiscal issues. Jack Lew

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There's a lot of trust being built up. I think we have a lot of work ahead of us. Jack Lew

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We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can. Jack Lew

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The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037. Jack Lew

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It is time for the general fund to pay the Social Security fund back. Jack Lew

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If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution. Jack Lew

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If you look at the cost of providing health insurance, it actually doesn't cost more to provide a plan with contraceptive coverage than it does without. Jack Lew

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Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books. Jack Lew

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Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority. Jack Lew

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I think it's very important not to confuse the importance of dealing with Social Security in the long term with these short-term deficit reduction challenges. They're different issues. Jack Lew

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