Stephen J. Hadley: “Bipartisan foreign policy is going to be much stronger and sustainable.”

We have to have a robust economy, we need to show that our politics can work and solve our social problems.

We need to get our economy growing.

The president made it very clear it's going to be hard, and there's no assurance for success. The president believes his strategy has a prospect for success. It's going to be hard, the NIE says that. The president has said that.

Closure of good shipyards and dispersal of skilled and experienced work forces cannot easily be resurrected.