Stephen J. Hadley: “Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.”

We need to expose that, and then we need to push back by exporting truth.

If a President thought that what he or she shared with the National Security Advisor could be compelled in public testimony, the President would look elsewhere for a national security and foreign policy confidant.

It should surprise no one that freedom has allowed the expression of sectarian identity and the surfacing of sectarian grievances.

I think the main thing that we have to think about is how to explain to the American people that our safety and security depends on a different--that we can't wall ourselves off from things.