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…”

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.

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

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.