Robert Gates: “Senator, your question is very timely. The administration will conduct a strategic review of our policies toward…”

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

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.