The United States must scrap the current structure of the State Department and radically reshape its foreign assistance, trade and diplomatic programs to create a super-size (1,2,3,4) international affairs agency to meet overseas challenges.

Some thoughts:

Attendant: More anything?
Jerry: More everything!

Is more what we really need?

In my opinion not.

But ... more is what Congress is ready to support and fund, ... and more is what we are going to get.

The federal government is on a “burning platform,” and the status quo way of doing business is unacceptable ...

Current Fiscal Policy Is Unsustainable: we cannot simply grow our way out of this problem. Tough choices will be required.

Drawing parallels with the end of the Roman empire, Mr Walker warned there were “striking similarities” between America’s current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, including “declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government”.

Mrs. Clinton said that making personal attacks on Mr Obama was going to be "fun".