I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

The Mexican military has a bad record in this area. It's very worrying that the United States is turning to them for this.

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels.

It's clear that the United States has more to give the world than military bases.

Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.

The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, ... and if necessary, to defeat us militarily.