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

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.

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.

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.

No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.