Robert Gates: “The secret to success from a security standpoint is the ANA and the ANP and, I might add, a more effective border…”

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

it's a terrible way to budget. I mean, it is a gimmick.

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