Robert Gates: “Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.”

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

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.

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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