Robert Gates: “I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him…”

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

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.

I think part of the problem is that at the end of the Cold War, we were affected by triumphalism or hubris, whatever you want to call it.