You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO Europe today, the center of gravity is shifting to the east. And there are a lot of new members. And if you just take the list of all the members of NATO and all of those who have been invited in recently -- what is it? Twenty-six, something like that? -- you're right. Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem.

We do have a saying in America: if you're in a hole, stop digging ..... erm, I'm not sure I should have said that.

If you look ahead 10 years, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the people of Russia had become fans of missile defence.

I think we ought to have a new rule: You can ask two questions, and then we can pick the one we want to answer.

The reality is that terrorists can attack any time at any minute, 24 hours a day, using a variety of techniques, in any place at all. And it's not possible to defend in every place, against every technique, against every conceivable approach. It means that you can't stop every terrorist attack. Innocent men, women and children are going to be killed if terrorists are determined to do it.

It is very difficult to spend "federal (the taxpayers') dollars" so that the intended result is achieved.

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.