Robert Gates: “I suspect that that is the way it will happen in Afghanistan as well.”

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

Allies are a huge asset and in not understanding that I think is a real problem.

Senator Kaine will recall the reaction when we--when I shuttered Joint Forces Command in Norfolk.

My concern is, we don't have an overriding strategy on the part of the United States in this complex challenge over the next 20 to 30 years.