Things Aren't Getting Better; They're Getting Worse.

It's Critically Important That We Have Governments To Work With, That We Have Entities To Work With. President Hadi Has Been A Good Partner In That, And We Would Hope That The Next Set Of Leaders That Govern Yemen Will Also Take The Same Approach To Cooperation With The United States.

Assad Must Go. He's Lost The Legitimacy To Govern.

I Don't Think It's A Matter Of Going Back And Having A Review Of Our Process. Our Process Is About As Thorough As There Can Be. Is It Imperfect? Yes. Is There Risk? Yes, But We Start With The Fact That We Have An American That's Being Held Hostage And That American's Life Is In Danger And That's Where We Start. And Then We Proceed From There.

This Is Eventually How Syria Will Be Resolved - Through A Political Settlement.

This Is A Complicated Time To Govern In The World Today Because Of So Much Going On And It's Coming At Us At Such An Unprecedented Rate.