We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

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.

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

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.