You Never Want A Serious Crisis To

As Individuals, We Will Be Judged In Our Lives By The Totality Of Our Actions. Not One Thing Will Stand Out. And I Think That's How We Get Judged By Our Colleagues And That's How We Get Judged By The Good Lord.

At Some Point, Deliberation Begins To Look More Like Indecisiveness Which Then Becomes A Way Of Emboldening Our Enemies And Allies And Causing Our Allies To Question Our Resolve. So We Shouldn't Let One Component Of This Determine Our National Security Here Which Depends On Providing An Afghanistan Which Denies A Safe Haven To Terrorists As Well As Stabilizing Pakistan. Those Are Our Two National Security Interests At Stake In Afghanistan.

I Hope President [hamid] Karzai Understands That Our National Security Interests Don't Depend Entirely On His Decision There Whether To Allow A Recount. Obviously The Legitimacy Of That Government Is An Important Component Of It. My Point Is It Shouldn't Be The Lynch Pin For Us Deciding Whether We're Going To Protect Our National Security Interests In That Region.

We Invoke The Sacrifices Of Our Fallen Heroes In The Abstract, But We Seldom Take Time To Thank Them Individually.

I Think That Every Country Presents Its Own Particular Challenges, Different Cultures, Different Histories, Different Religions, Different People. And Different Ethnic Make-ups In Those Countries Present Different Challenges.