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

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.

The reason we've always had a civilian in that job [Secretary of Defence] is because we really believe that it is policymakers who ought to control the military and not have the military control the military.

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.

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

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.