I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

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

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

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

What we have done is when the threat has been directed at the United States, i.e., the terrorist threat from ISIL or Al-Qaeda in Syria, is to go after them.

The notion that -- which some people are trying to suggest, that by asking for the identity of an American person, that is the same as leaking it, is completely false. There's no equivalence between so-called unmasking and leaking.

If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.