There are no cookie-cutter solutions that you can apply from one circumstance to another. They're different. Our interests, as implicated, are different. The tools we have at our disposal are different.

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

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

I am blunt when I want to be.

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.

We have some straight journalism, but then we have opinion and perspective. And I think a lot of people, especially young people, don't know how to tell the difference, and aren't motivated to tell the difference.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.