The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of North Korea's energy. The United States have to put pressure on China in order for China to pressure North Korea.

Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

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

We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.

Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has a lot more weaknesses than people see.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

There's no such thing as the United Nations.