Robert Gates: “You can never reach a point--just as there is no such thing as perfect security, there is no such thing as eliminating…”

I think appearances do matter.

The President does not like having countervailing opinions, he does not like being disagreed with.

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.

I think the only thing I would've said is that a lot of this could've been done sooner.