When you have armed militants, aided and abetted by a major country like Russia, able to use surface-to-air missiles to bring down a commercial airline, that is a form of terrorism.

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.