Robert Gates: “The role of Congress itself.”

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

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

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