Defense Is Not Like Other Discretionary Spending.

I Think That Vladimir Putin Has Decided, In A Very Strategic Way, To Turn The Tables And Do Everything In His Power To, As We've Described Russian Elections As Illegitimate, To Try And Communicate To The Rest Of The World That Western Elections Are Illegitimate. And It's Not Just Us, We Know That Now. It's Germany, It's France, It's A Number Of Other Countries.

I Wish I Could Set Deadlines For The Congress, But That's Just Not The Way The Constitution Is Written.

Power... Military Success Is Not Sufficient To Win: Economic Development, Institution-building And The Rule Of Law, Promoting Internal Reconciliation, Good Governance, Providing Basic Services To The People, Training And Equipping Indigenous Military And Police Forces, Strategic Communications, And More Of These, Along With Security, Are Essential Ingredients For Long-term Success.

Most Governments Lie To Each Other. That's The Way Business Gets Done.

I Think That - That The Disruptive Nature, The Tough Talk On North Korea, The Military Deployments, Sending The Missile Defense System To South Korea, I Think These Are All Good Things To Have Done.