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.

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.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Palestinians caged up like animals.

You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.