If we win a town in Syria and lose 10,000 kids in France or Belgium or Florida or Ohio, that's not victory.
I consider this extremely grave, a grave issue, because if we don't have reliable intelligence, as policymakers, and if ...
A strategy that ignores Assad... I just think in--I'm--I think we now need to recognize that that's not a logical strate...
I want to submit for the record an extraordinary speech by Robert Gates in 1992, when he was head of the CIA, on the dan...
we've got to find a strategy that allows us to move Assad aside in some way, working with the Russians, if necessary, or...
we're not going to defeat ISIS with just airpower. Everybody knows that.
We can't wait years for Assad to leave and we turn the guns of the opposition and the Syrian army on ISIL.
Clearly, if the middle class has more money to spend, that is economic.
The one thing this institution does really well is avoidance.
We are fighting over a smaller and smaller share of the budget.
Targeting our budget-balancing efforts on discretionary spending... is really missing the big picture.