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Often, Loyalty Means Telling People Things They Don't Want To Hear. It's Not Being Sycophantic, It's Not Telling Them How Wonderful They Are Every Day. It's Being Willing To Tell Them The Days They're Not Wonderful.

You Know, If I Were An - If I Were A Taliban, I'd Say, 'what Did Al-qaida Ever Do For Me Except Get Me Kicked Out Of Afghanistan?'

I Mean, When You Get Down To Very Low Numbers Of Nuclear Weapons, And You Contemplate Going To Zero, How Do You Deal With The Reality Of That Technology Being Available To Almost Any Country That Seeks To Pursue It? And What Conditions Do You Put In Place?

Even When I Was At Cia, I'd Go To Visit Foreign Leaders And I'd Say, 'you Know, I'm Not A Diplomat. I'm Just An Old Cia Guy'... I Said, 'if I Wanted To Be Diplomatic, I'd Have Been A Diplomat.'

Every Time We Have Come To The End Of A Conflict, Somehow We Have Persuaded Ourselves That The Nature Of Mankind And The Nature Of The World Have Changed On An Enduring Basis And So We Have Dismantle Our Military And Intelligence Capabilities. My Hope Is That As We Wind Down In Iraq And Whatever The Level Of Our Commitment In Afghanistan, That We Not Forget The Basic Nature Of Humankind Has Not Changed.