Stephen J. Hadley: “Bipartisan foreign policy is going to be much stronger and sustainable.”

I think this distinction between soft power and hard power is not a good one because a lot of our soft power converts into real hard power.

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

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.

The president made it very clear it's going to be hard, and there's no assurance for success. The president believes his strategy has a prospect for success. It's going to be hard, the NIE says that. The president has said that.