Robert Gates: “I promise you that as long as I remain in this post I will focus on creating a unified defense strategy that determines…”

the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not years--was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.

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

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…

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