I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

The North Koreans will sell anything to anybody for hard currency. If Al Queda came up with enough dollars to buy a nuclear weapon from North Korea I don't have any doubt that the North Koreans would sell it to them.

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American.

I think the future of China's unknown, I don't know what direction it's going to go in. It could go in the right direction, it could. It could go in a very bad direction, too.