We Must Prepare For Everything.

I Would Not Trade America's Position In The World - Our Ledger, Our Debts And Assets - For Any Country In The World. There Isn't A Country In The World Even Close To America.

We Live In A World Of Absolute Immediacy. It Is An Interconnected, Combustible World, Where Technology And Many Other Actions Have Given Nonstate Actors A Reach, Into Countries And Societies, For Both Good And Evil, That We Have Never Seen Before. So It Isn't A Matter Of Just State Versus State Challenges Or Conflict. The Bigger Problem Is Nonstate Actors.

We Can't ... Take That Piece Of Reality In This Business And Set That Aside And Say, Well, That Doesn't Count. And The Republicans On My Side Understand That The Majority Is In Fact Up For Grabs Next Year. So There's Not A Decision Made Up Here That Doesn't Have That Factor Coursing Through That Current.

Things Aren't Getting Better; They're Getting Worse. The White House Is Completely Disconnected From Reality. It's Like They're Just Making It Up As They Go Along. The Reality Is That We're Losing In Iraq.

I Took An Oath Of Office To The Constitution, I Didn't Take An Oath Of Office To My Party Or My President.