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.

I'm not big on commissions.

The fundamental premise is that neither the United States or the international community is going to allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

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

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

I mean, the Taliban, my view is that they have been weakened.