They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs.

No, the United States does not target civilians.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Now, 'high-intensity conflict' is a fancy word for saying tanks on tanks, aircraft shooting each other out of the sky, a great deal of violence at a level we haven't seen since probably the Korean War or World War II, where you have big armies facing off against one another.

Even in non-democratic countries, people have a legitimate interest in knowing about actions taken by the government.

The first thing I remember feeling about the 2016 U.S. election was a kind of speechlessness.