"we have got to--we can't pivot away from any one region in the world because they all matter to our security and our prosperity."
"I think that the administration's pulling back from global leadership more generally has contributed significantly to that view."
"We have to fight that and come back at it on the ground of Islam."
"It requires the discrediting of violent Islamist extremism as an ideology, and let me underscore here the enemy is violent Islamist extremism."
"American people ultimately they don't want us to go recklessly picking fights everywhere around the world."
"Congress can do more, broadcasting can do more but honestly it has to start with the number one American, who is the President."
"By our Declaration of Independence we were given a mandate, a responsibility, a kind of destiny to carry that message which was universal human rights and there is no people in the world that don't re..."
"Let me say finally that ultimate success in this struggle depends not simply on the death of particular terrorist leaders or the destruction of particular terrorist groups, important though that is."
"I support that."
"Our safety as a Nation is ultimately inseparable from our ability to meet the fullness of the threat."
"In politics, we are talking about spying, about snooping."