From a speech by Victoria Nuland, United States Permanent Representative to Nato, at the Presse Club and AmCham, Paris, France, 22 February 2008:
“An ESDP with only soft power is not enough…the US needs, the UK needs, NATO needs, the democratic world needs a stronger, more capable European defence capacity.”
Read the whole speech here: http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-english/2008/February/20080222183349eaifas0.5647394.html