Richard Clarke: “We have to find the modus vivendi with China. That's job number one.”

I will make you pay a price. We haven't been willing to make them pay a price, except for economic sanctions.

The way in which the Biden administration has done this has meant that the United States is dependent on the Taliban for our own security, for our own ability to extract our people.

Dick Cheney is a discredited hypocrite. He knew in 1991 that it was a mistake to go in and that was the only time he's ever been right about Iraq. Why anybody would listen to Dick Cheney on Iraq is beyond me?

Our precondition for any cooperation going forward has to be that people are allowed to continue to leave, even after the airlift.