Stephen J. Hadley: “America has never accepted the idea that it had to choose between its democratic principles and its interests.”

We need to expose that, and then we need to push back by exporting truth.

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.

Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.

The worst of all worlds would be to allocate too few ships to too many yards.