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Our diplomats work side by side to help resolve conflicts and promote peace from syria to iran. our development experts help impoverished villages, boost their agriculture and lift themselves out of poverty. and this level of partnership across so many areas would have been unimaginable, even a decade ago. but its a testament to how our two nations have worked to transform our alliance, and i want to salute president hollande for carrying this work forward. francois, you havent just spoken eloqu...

Desks, this very simple procedure were doing. its worked fabulously well. the more you get into the difficulty of girls education, which every teacher talks about, every teacher talks about the difficulty of retaining girls in the classroom. the families, especially when they have to pay tuition have to make the decision who gets to go. they will almost always choose the boy. almost always. the president of malawi is a woman, the first in history. so were kind of using her example as an inspirat...

Magazine is about the end of global poverty. and she writes. is this good news? >> yeah. this is really, really good news. >> okay! >> we have a good story. >> she writes in part this. at a news conference during the spring meeting of the international monetary fund at the world bank in late april, jim yony kim held up a piece of paper saying this is it who took over as president of the world bank last summer, this is the global target to end poverty. it sounds like the sort of ambitious goal th...

Trying to help bring in to being in the 21st century will have many difficult days, but i am more optimistic than i was when i stood here four years ago. i have seen day after day the many contributions that our diplomats and development experts are making to help ensure that this century provides the kind of peace, progress and prosperity, not just the united states, but especially young people so richly deserve. i am very proud to have been secretary of state. i will miss you. i will probably ...

Get to the question you raise, the balance between troops possibly, between diplomatic advisers, development experts, cia operatives, and where policy in the case of afghanistan has to make some changes, but its generally on a predetermined course but its going to have to vary quite a bit because were drawing down troops now. in syria i think what we have is a policy for all the good intentions hasnt really worked. and if i were secretary kerry, i would probably commission my best people to do a...

Administrations foreign policy, and i urge his speedy confirmation. as we have heard from both the chairman and the ranking member and just now senator warren, he will bring a record of leadership and service that is exemplary. he has a view of the world that he has acted on first as that young returning veteran from vietnam who appeared before this committee through the time that he served with such distinction as its chairman. hes been a valued partner to this administration and to me personal...

Phone. he played an instrumental role in working with president karzai at that time, to accept the results of the election and to move forward. i had to call harry reid and ask harry not to schedule any votes so john could continue to stay there to see that mission through. but thats what he does. he is a determined and effective representative of the united states, has been as a senator, will be as secretary. let me close by saying that leading our diplomats and development experts is a great h...

Completed by the end of march. a number are already completed. and we will use this opportunity to take a top-to-bottom look, and rethink how we make decisions on where, when, and whether people operate in high-threat areas and then how we respond to threats and crises. we are initiating an annual high-threat post review, chaired by the secretary of state. and ongoing reviews by the accident secretaries to ensure that pivotal questions about security do reach the highest levels. we will regulari...

Now, because of problems with private security guard contracts that came to light in iraq, whereas you remember there were a lot of difficulties, these were private security guards who were protecting diplomats and development experts and other civilians. many countries have put very string ent requirements on private security guards and in fact in libya, the transitional government prohibited private security guards, which is why there was this -- unless they approve them. so they approved this...

Stronger for it. so today, after four years in this job, traveling nearly a million miles, visiting 112 countries, my faith in our country and our future is stronger than ever. every time that blue and white airplane carrying the word "united states of america" touches down in some far-off capital, i feel again the honor it is to represent the worlds indispensable nation, and i am confident that with your help, we will keep the united states safe, strong, and exceptional. so i want to thank this...