I worry a little bit about - quote - "regime change." We haven't had a great deal of success with that in years. That's just really difficult.

Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

The truth is, we live in deeds, not days; in actions and thoughts and feelings, not heartbeats.

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

I think anybody in our - in the, in the national security apparatus has, has got to take full cognizance of their responsibility for the safeguarding of classified information.

I'm not a policy and a strategy guy. I'm - you know, the military basically supports what the president wants, the decisions that he makes.

I've said for a long time, clearly the - a, a critical key to success in the region is going to be Pakistan and our relationship with Pakistan, which was one that was broken in the late '80s and which we've worked hard to restore.