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With A Weak And Rotting Core, You Don't Have Much Of A Foreign Policy. You're Discounted At The Negotiating Table, Economically And Militarily. So When People Ask What's The Best Course Of Action For The U.s.-china Relationship, I Can Give You Ten Academic Responses. But The Reality Is We Need To Rebuild Our Core.

In Any Walk Of Life, A Positive, Upbeat Outlook Trumps Any Adversarial Act. Revenge Is Counterproductive. Unproductive Emotions Limit One's Ability To Move Forward, To Focus, To Think Positively, To Act Creatively.

I'm Not Competing In Iowa For A Reason.

The Rest Of The World Cares About How We Conduct Our Affairs Because They Then Take That Lead. Were The Only Leader In The World Today. Some Are Wishing Us Well, Others Think That Were Down And Are Not Going To Get Back Up Again, But They Are All Watching With Great Interest To See How We Conduct Our Business Over The Next Couple Of Years.

It's A Tribal State, And It Always Will Be. Whether We Like It Or Not, Whenever We Withdraw From Afghanistan, Whether It's Now Or Years From Now, We'll Have An Incendiary Situation. Should We Stay And Play Traffic Cop? I Don't Think That Serves Our Strategic Interests.