Washington — Secretary of State John Kerry says that at a time of fiscal constraint the United States must not shrink from global engagement.
"The price of abandoning our global efforts would be exorbitant," Kerry said in Charlottesville, Virginia, in his first major speech since becoming secretary of state. "The vacuum we would leave by retreating within ourselves will quickly be filled by those whose interests differ dramatically from ours."
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