Robert Gates: “As I told a group of soldiers in Afghanistan, they have done their job; now it is time for us in Washington to do ours.”

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

No more continuing resolutions.