The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

The area of climate change has a dramatic impact on national security.

The president is out there today trying to talk about health care, and the reality is nobody cares about what he's saying on health care because this news is consuming everything. No president could tolerate that or should tolerate it.

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

You don't deploy forces into harm's way without knowing what's going on.

If the Iraqis fail to implement the reforms, if they fail to get a handle on the violence, there's nothing the United States can do, militarily or otherwise, that can solve those problems. They have to assume the primary responsibility to govern themselves.

One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.