Robert Gates: “Improving Afghan governance remains a major challenge to success.”

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

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…

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

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.