Robert Gates: “The Egyptian people have been denied their democratic rights for too long.”

We want everything that's possible, and a lot of things that aren't possible, in a new system.

Without proper and predictable funding, no amount of reform or clever reorganization will provide America with a military capable of accomplishing the missions it's assigned to.

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

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.