Throughout The 40 Years I've Been In

Well, The United States Is A Pacific Power. And We Have Always Had A Presence In The Pacific.

The United States Has To Be A Leader In The World, Because The Problem Is: If We Are Not Leading, Nobody Else Will.

We Either Believe In The Dignity Of The Individual, The Rule Of Law, And The Prohibition Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Or We Don't. There Is No Middle Ground.

It Doesn't Make A Lot Of Sense For Us To Borrow Money From The Chinese To Go Give To Another Country For Humanitarian Aid. We Ought To Get The Chinese To Take Care Of The People.

My Impression Is That Putin Feels That He Can Basically Manipulate The West To Do What He Ultimately Wants To Achieve, And That He Feels He's Gotten Away With It So Far, And That All He Has To Do Is Basically Play The Same Game.