Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

I like to build bridges... not walls.

The problem is that agencies sometimes lose sight of common sense as they create regulations.