This absolutely hysterical idea that borders can't change.

Business companies... cannot be trusted to make economic decisions for their company and take into consideration the national security of our country.

The last thing this country needs is to help China build an aerospace industry to compete with our aerospace industry.

I appreciate that comment, and if you do believe in self-determination by a vote of the people you don't have to worry about that, do you, because you have got that one standard.

Actually, I would never say, let them. I believe that keeping large hunks of people who are contiguous to another border can't be in the middle of a country obviously, but keeping them artificially in that other country is what creates violence, which creates people wanting to commit some sort of attack on those people, and their retaliation against those.

I don't believe in hypocrisy. If in 2008, Russia, EU and U.S. did a lot of arm twisting to say to Kosovo that the way forward is a melting pot.

I am sure that our great thinkers at the State Department have charted out philosophically how people must be taught to respect the rule of law and that is the nirvana. That is the solution that is going to happen.

And does Kosovo, how long will they insist on hanging on to an area where the vast majority, 90 percent of the people, don't want to be part of Kosovo in the same way they didn't want to be part of Serbia?

What would that bring? It would bring a lot of bloodshed, that is what it would bring.

the principle of self-determination, I believe, should apply to everyone.

Ethnic violence is always wrong no matter who does it.

Kosovo always has struck me as a great opportunity for the United States to partner with because it is a nation that likes the United States.

I guess when you have a case like that pending that it undermines this belief that everyone can just trust the rule of law.

The agreement then actually depends upon KFOR and the United States to continue indefinitely, because there is no mention as to any length of time that this status quo will exist either.

After 12 years of waiting, hope springs eternal.

It is our own Government that is pushing this nonsense. It is nonsense.

I was a huge supporter of Kosovo--and coming in to help them win their freedom and independence, because I believe in their right to make that determination, national self-determination.

I am very disturbed by this settlement. This settlement will not lead to peace.