Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

My impression is that Putin feels that he can basically manipulate the West to do what he ultimately wants to achieve, and that he feels he's gotten away with it so far, and that all he has to do is basically play the same game.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time.

China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.