After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.

The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.

There is no military solution to the challenges of Syria.

Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.

Al-Qaida in particular remains dangerous, and there [in Iraq] is some residual militia and special group presence. There are still between 20 and 30 attacks per day, still periodic car bombs and still loss of innocent civilians.