Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.

I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be - hold hands.

Our job is to help Iraq forces be better equipped, to help their police be able to deal with these extremists and to help their government succeed.

What's the sense of sending $2 million missiles to hit a $10 tent that's empty?

We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. Dealing with Congress is a matter of give and take. The president doesn't get everything he wants, the Congress doesn't get everything they want. But we're finding good common ground.

But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans.