We are a nation at war. This is also a time for hard choices. It's about ensuring that we are able to prevail in the conflicts in which we are now engaged. But it's also about being able to be strong and disciplined in applying our nation's limited resources to defending America.

I think it's extremely important that the president Donald Trump himself indicate that he too wants to discover the full truth behind what the Russians did to elections 2016.

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

We have throughout our history been tested when it comes to the institutions of our democracy. And thank God our forefathers were smart enough to establish a government of checks and balances to make sure that power cannot be centralized in any one branch of government. And those institutions have proven themselves.

I'm going to give people the benefit of the doubt.

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

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