Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few.

I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

In reality, I don't think that many of the policies we've attempted to apply to deal with it are going to have any serious effect.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

I will make a general statement that we have not had anything like the policy of holding people in high office responsible for their acts that I think we should.