"Yes, I actually would hope to have a more clear priority that, yes, there has to be an enormous humanitarian need, but there also has to be a very clear U.S. interest in intervening in that particular..."
"The needs of the world are so enormous that when you look at those needs, you have to say we have more interest, for instance, in Haiti than we might in someplace far, far away, in part because it is ..."
"We have interest in Ukraine because we know that the old Soviet Union did some really bad things that we fought for decades, and so we want to keep that from happening again."
"they have a very comprehensive plan to establish global leadership and to replace us"
"Freedom House indicates that trend continued again this year."
"If we have a strategy to counter China, it is not working."
"But we need a comprehensive strategy."
"we are losing, if you will, on the strategic battlefield."
"Three words does not make a strategy."
"The public thinks we work on the budget, but we don't."
"We've never come together and negotiated and given some give and take."
"The increase in debt is unsustainable."