And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

There's always a balance, I think, any administration has to find in not just the military but in any agency of government.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.