I wish I could set deadlines for the Congress, but that's just not the way the Constitution is written..

My one concern is that Hu Jintao may overestimate how much power China has in Pyongyang. They have - they do have influence, and they do have compani….

In government, I'm a strong believer in the need for reform of government agencies and departments. They - they have gotten fat and sloppy, and they'….

I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States..

I'm a big advocate of drones..

I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please..

I consider myself a Republican..

I fired a lot of senior people myself and I think the key, when you feel compelled to remove a senior official, is essentially to have all your ducks….

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every othe….

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades..

Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have cha….

I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a nuclear arms race in the region..

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration..

I have always voted for who I believed was the best person..

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers..

You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'.

If possible, to be in a position to announce who is going to step in as the interim immediately. And if possible, to announce who you're going to nom….

I will always be an advocate in terms of wars of necessity. I am just much more cautious on wars of choice..

I think that Vladimir Putin has decided, in a very strategic way, to turn the tables and do everything in his power to, as we've described Russian el….

I think in the policies that have been followed since the president Donald Trump came into office, there really hasn't been any slack cut for the Rus….

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of….