I'm A Big Advocate Of Drones.

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.

America's Civilian Institutions Of Diplomacy And Development Have Been Chronically Undermanned And Underfunded For Far Too Long.

My Last Visit To China As Secretary, January Of 2011, I Told President Hu Jintao, Just Like This, "president Of The United States Wanted Me To Tell You That We Now Consider North Korea A Direct Threat To The United States." And It Had No Effect Whatsoever.

I've Seen, All Too Often In My Career, People Coming In To Lead Agencies And Organizations And Trying To Impose Change From The Top Down. Never Works. You Never Have Enough Time.

I Think It's Kind Of A Stretch. You Know, It's One Thing If Somebody Working For The U.s. Government Has Sold Secrets To The Other Side, It's Another If They Have Something In Their Personal Life That They're Hiding For Which They Could Be Blackmailed. Having Evidence That They Didn't Tell The Truth To Somebody In The Same Building Where They Work, Maybe It's Just The Old Intel Guy, Is - It's A Problem.