If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

I think that the only time we will really know what then-President Trump is going to do about the set of challenges that confront him is after he has sat down with his advisers as the commander in chief, when he's looking at the threats and the intelligence from the standpoint of being the number one decider, when he's hearing from his secretary of defense, his chairman, who was the same chairman President Obama had, Chairman Joe Dunford, who is an outstanding public servant, who has led our anti-ISIL effort, on which we're making great progress.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.