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Serving in the executive branch is very different than sounding off from an academic perch.

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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.

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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.

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I was extremely close to my father, inseparable. Where we hung out most of the time was the pub.

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Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.

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The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.

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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?

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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.

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Syria is important because it lies at the heart of a region critical to U.S. security, a region that is home to friends and partners and one of our closest allies. It is important because the Syrian regime possesses stores of chemical weapons that they have recently used on a large scale and that we cannot allow to fall into terrorists' hands.

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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Public Servant

Born: September 21st, 1970

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