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We have a strong security partnership with Qatar, and are in constant dialogue with Qatari government officials about these five detainees and we are confident that we would be able to mitigate any threat of re-engagement by any of these members.

Rear Admiral John Kirby

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I wouldn't be doing it if I thought that it was contrary to American national security, and we have confidence that we will be in a position to go after them if, in fact, they are engaging in activities that threaten our defenses.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
10 years ago

And we have confidence that we will be in a position to go after them if, in fact, they are engaging in activities that threaten our defenses.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
10 years ago

What I can say with confidence is this individual has not returned to the battlefield, this individual is not allowed to travel outside Qatar, and this individual has not engaged in any physical violence.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest

Found on CNN
10 years ago

It also just indicates the degree to which whatever ideology they're operating off of, it's bankrupt.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
10 years ago

With affiliates in Algeria, Egypt, Libya, the group is beginning to assemble a growing international footprint that includes ungoverned and under governed areas.

Vincent Stewart

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The regime faces no insurmountable technical barriers to producing a nuclear weapon, making Iran's political will the central issue.

Vincent Stewart

Found on CNN
10 years ago

What is absolutely true is that if you have a leader who continually drives past the off ramps that we've provided, given the size of the Russian military, given the fact that Ukraine is not a NATO country and so as a consequence there are clear limits in terms of what we would do militarily, you know, Mr. Putin has not been stopped so far.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
10 years ago

To those who would suggest that we need to do more, what I've said to them is that we can exact higher and higher costs, and that's exactly what we're doing and we can bring diplomatic pressure to bear.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We don't think the answer to the crisis in Ukraine is simply to inject more weapons and get into that type of tit-for-tat with Russia.

Ben Rhodes

Found on CNN
10 years ago

We're moving toward a situation where members are letting people into the process and viewing it through their own eyes, which is a lot closer, you're seeing more members involved personally, and it brings a lot more people into the process.

Sean Evins

Found on CNN
10 years ago

The best members of Congress who use Twitter are the ones who are using it themselves and using it in an authentic way, it's not something to be afraid of. Opening this new gateway for that direct one-on-one communication gateway with constituents is something we haven't had in a long time.

Adam Sharp

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Our role here is to help elected officials and agencies recognize that they can use the platform to communicate more effectively with constituents and give them ideas on how to do that.

Adam Sharp

Found on CNN
10 years ago

My job is to present the right ideas, and if Republicans think they have a better idea then they should present them.

The President

Found on CNN
10 years ago

In addition to taking away Americans' health care security, the bill would increase the deficit, remove policies that have helped slow health care cost growth and improve the quality of care patients receive, and detract from the work the Congress could be doing to further job creation and economic growth, if the President were presented with H.R. 596, he would veto it.

The White House

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I'd rather have bland or uncharismatic than dumb or ignorant, or corrupt or any of the other things that they could label other would-be candidates out there. Or old, for that matter.

Scott Walker

Found on CNN
10 years ago

One star turn in Iowa won't hide Scott Walker's record.

Ben Ray

Found on CNN
10 years ago

He has a strong reputation with the grassroots activists while still holding the credentials of somebody who has great potential as a national candidate.

Kevin Madden

Found on CNN
10 years ago

When I got on the Court I went to Justice Scalia, i told him the whole story and I said this is the only promise I made in 82 office visits. He thought it was hysterical.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

Found on CNN
10 years ago

There is every reason to get vaccinated but there aren't reasons to not.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
10 years ago

All I can say is we vaccinated ours.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
10 years ago

Is he going to have to be clarifying his comments all the time?

Jonathan Jaffe

Found on CNN
10 years ago

It is important for parents to have their children vaccinated, i remember the measles. It was bad. Hard shaking chills doesn't even begin to describe it.

Michael Burgess

Found on CNN
10 years ago

I remember the measles. It was bad. Hard shaking chills doesn't even begin to describe it.

Michael Burgess

Found on CNN
10 years ago

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