Trump has a bigger, longer-term vision for this country than just sitting as a president for four years. He really does. And that's what I was impressed by.
If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.
Obama has made incredibly poor decisions that have made us less safe.
What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.
One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion.
The president says, 'What difference does it make what you call the enemy?' Are you kidding me? As an intelligence officer, I would never get away with that. I could never say, 'Well, you know, boss, I don't label this enemy that we're facing.'
Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.
On military battlefields, we have defeated radical Islamic forces every time we have seriously gone after them, from Iraq to Afghanistan.
DCGS is hard to learn. It takes a long time. You have to use it all the time, which means it's not a simple technology that people are used to and can buy off the shelf today. And frankly, it doesn't do what it's touted to do. That's why you see units out on the battlefield asking for very similar things.
I think what - I think what the American people is looking for is they are looking for moral and intellectual courage and clarity, and not a sense of passivity or confusion.
We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.
We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.
We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred.
Iran has every intention to build a nuclear weapon.