Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

I think a quality that a national security adviser must have is the ability to set up procedures.

Frankly, my fundamental beliefs have not changed.

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.

The most important thing we can do is prosecute the offenders, deal with those that have broken the law and committed this crime. And if we can do that then we can begin to deal with this issue and send a signal this is not a problem that we are going to ignore in the United States military.