When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.

couldn't be happier with where we are.

Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in our government are entirely loyal to the United States.

You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes.

Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.