I have a range, and I'd much rather do things the nice way than the hard way, but sometimes you have to use all the tools at your disposal.

It's not the day in which I grew up, long time ago, where we had three news networks. No cable, no social media, no internet. Where what you see is what you got. We had basically straight journalism. We don't have that anymore.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.

The Russians are clearly already engaged in a proxy war against the government of Ukraine. And that is something that we and the rest of the world have actively condemned and sanctioned Russia already heavily for, particularly the United States, as we have imposed now meaningful, tough sanctions in critical sectors, including the defense sector, the financial sector, and the energy sector.

The problem is, Hamas is using force to try to extort progress on its political objectives.

President Obama is perhaps the smartest person I've ever worked with.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.