I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.

Anyone who came in when he did would have had a steep hill to climb, in part because change can be difficult,

its thoroughness and accuracy can then be debated.