I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror and in some sense a battleground of the war on terror.

We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.