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.

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.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

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

The one thing that I remember from all of my intelligence briefings and my dealings with the Russians is that when you deal with the Russians, you have to deal with them from strength, not from weakness.

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the US military stands for.

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.