In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.