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It is very clear that planning for climate change is not some frivolous waste of time or waste of money, it is essential to our troops and to their wellbeing and to the national security of our country.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The North Koreans have not signed any document working out, laying out, what steps they are going to take to denuclearize, there has been nothing stated, agreed to, framed signed, except what President Trump says they've said... but now... we have a whole different story, and it is the reality, it is not fantasy.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
But I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
And he let down, I think, our veterans, he let down our country. And I think he sent a very wrong message to the world.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
To me, it's a recognition that when a country has men and women at war who are dying -- like we do have people dying, still, in Afghanistan -- and not recognize that by going and by looking and asking questions and being part of that personally, rather than just getting reports in the morning or in the afternoon, that's a misstep, but I think it's bigger than just a misstep. I think it's a failure of an obligation -- of a basic obligation of a commander in chief. He's commander in chief of our forces and not to go to a war zone where we have men and women dying, that's just wrong.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
World War I was a horrific, terrible war that affected really everybody -- certainly affected us, and not to make a little bit of an effort to get to a very important ceremony was wrong. And I'm disappointed and I'm sorry that he didn't do it.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The North Koreans have not signed any document working out, laying out, what steps they are going to take to denuclearize, there has been nothing stated, agreed to, framed signed, except what President Trump says they've said ... but now ... we have a whole different story, and it is the reality, it is not fantasy.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This is folly. This is political distraction of the highest magnitude.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This was not a golf outing. This was not a real estate transactional kind of arrangement. ... Engagement must be connected to a strategic interest, a strategic purpose. I don't know what that strategic purpose was. I am now convinced we didn't have one.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I would not have said it the way John( Brennan) said it. John can say it the way he wants to say it. But as to impeachment, we'll see how this plays out. That's a congressional responsibility and the Congress must do what they think is in the best interest of this country.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
At a time when everything is hair-triggered, everything is nitroglycerin, and miscalculations can lead to a lot of trouble, we need veterans’ input.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The Israeli air force is really interested. It really came down to an internal budget related issues.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The base commander has been relieved. It is now in the purview of appropriate authorities, so I won't have anything to say specifically about that, but the commander has been relieved.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The recent wave of Taliban attacks has made clear that the international community must not waiver in its support for a stable, secure and prosperous Afghanistan.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
But we start with the fact that we have an American that's being held hostage and that American's life is in danger and that's where we start. And then we proceed from there.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect? Yes. Is there risk? Yes, but we start with the fact that we have an American that's being held hostage and that American's life is in danger and that's where we start. And then we proceed from there.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
There's an immense amount of focus and time and review that goes into these operations, so, I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
Only two people know what was said. That's the president and me.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
If anybody would have told Sergeant Hagel walking off that plane with my duffel bag where I'd be 46 years down the road, that would have been pretty hard for me to believe it, i mean, the privileges I've had have just been tremendous.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
It's not one defining issue for me. ... But it's a combination of things, as you think through these things, and the president and I talked about it, so I'm very comfortable with my position and my decision. I think the president feels good about it. I feel good about it.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
This was a mutual decision based on the discussions that we had, i don't think there's ever one overriding or defining decision in situations like this, unless there's some obvious issue, and there wasn't, between either one of us.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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