"I don't know where we are. You know, are we in or are we out?"
"This is a problem that one could characterize only as a Rubik's Cube on steroids."
"I view this, really, not as a Republican problem or a Democrat problem; this is an American problem."
"The President's new strategy still recognizes the criticality of a broad-based approach to regional problems."
"they must begin to accept their responsibility for their own security"
"The cost of failure, then, is grave."
"It validates our adherence to a counterinsurgency approach."
"I think that's a positive that we should look at, and the fact that we have driven al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan"
"No amount of troops in no amount of time will ever be enough to completely achieve success in such a fight."
"the sense of urgency really seems to be lacking there"
"As polarized as this country is politically, this is an issue that we really, really all need to pull together on."