Robert Gates: “I assure you that you are no more surprised to see me back than I am.”

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

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.

He's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

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.