Robert Gates: “These times of economic and fiscal stress place enormous pressure on all of us to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.”

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.