Robert Gates: “I think the other audience, frankly, is the American people, who are weary after 8 years of war, and to let them know…”

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.

I think appearances do matter.

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 feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.