If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, particularly from their close neighbors in Europe who have a great stake in North Africa.

The only way you can be comfortable about Donald Trump's foreign policy, is to think he doesn't really mean anything he says.

I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.

Firing employees, that's unfortunately part of doing business.

Saddam Hussein had nerve gas and used it against his own people, he had used chemical weapons against the Iranians and he almost had a nuclear bomb in 1981 and in 1991. And he had been caught with anthrax in 1995 by the UN inspections after denying that he had it.

There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.