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

I think it's extremely important that the president Donald Trump himself indicate that he too wants to discover the full truth behind what the Russians did to elections 2016.

I suddenly realized at the CIA that I had to make life-and-death decisions about people.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

The United States has to be a leader in the world, because the problem is: If we are not leading, nobody else will.

The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

The Taliban is resilient.