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

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

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

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.

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.