They stop putting you in charge of things because it takes too long to get a result. So we want the State Department to be relevant again, and it should be, because The State Department has a plethora of talented people who are subject matter experts and who have skills in diplomacy. And it's not being fully utilized because increasingly on issue after issue, we've seen the State Department marginalized because of internal inertia, because of the way the structure works. (10:10–10:19)
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