Robert Gates: “The election trajectory in Iraq is basically going pretty much as had been predicted.”

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.

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

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.