Robert Gates: “I thank the committee for your confidence in my leadership and your enduring, steadfast support of the military.”

This is basically the responsibility of the president to educate people about why this is necessary.

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.

I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And…

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