I Am Blunt Sometimes; I

The United States Of America Is The Leading Power In The World. Our Friends And Our Adversaries Respect Us In Large Measure Because They Know That We Are Steady. We Are Fact-based. We Are Serious.

The United States Share Of The African Market It's Very Small, It's Only About 8 Percent.

I Have Been To Libya And Walked The Streets Of Benghazi Myself.

I Was Working With A Number Of African Heads Of State. And After Their Initial Surprise, I Think Many Of Them Just Treated Me As They Would Anybody Else. They Had To Deal With Me As A Representative Of The United States Of America, And The United States Of America Was Too Important To Be Dismissed Or Ignored On Any Grounds.

The Notion That -- Which Some People Are Trying To Suggest, That By Asking For The Identity Of An American Person, That Is The Same As Leaking It, Is Completely False. There's No Equivalence Between So-called Unmasking And Leaking.