Leon Panetta: “I think we have to continually work at that. We have to work at developing a relationship of trust with the Pakistanis.”

I think the House, both the Speaker, the Republicans, the Democrats, have to come together to now move this supplemental. It is critical to the message we send to the world about U.S. world leadership.

I think it was Walter Mondale when he was asked about the legacy of the Carter administration, said something like, we told the truth, we followed the law and we preserve the peace.

Well, it certainly is concerning. You know, having been to the Munich conference a number of times, usually when a vice president or president goes to the Munich conference, he discusses the importance of security between the United States…

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.