The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do..

I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully knows ….

Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costl….

We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit….

You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal with them and what….

If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat..

In the lead-up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw, at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence, and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incom….

I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable ….

Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit..

I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US forces, and for what reason, and to m….