We Are Safer If There

There Is Not An Inherent Contradiction Between A Ukraine That Has Longstanding Historic And Cultural Ties To Russia, And A Modern Ukraine That Wants To Integrate More Closely With Europe.

I Am Straight Forward; I Am Not Manipulative; I Am Not Two-faced. And I Think That That Has Served Me Well In All Of My Roles, Particularly As A Diplomat, Because People Knew If I Said Something, I Meant It. If I Said No, I Meant No, And If I Said We Could Make This Work, We Would Make It Work.

If We Are To Garner Sustained U.s. Domestic Support For Future Trade Agreements, We Have To Make Sure Those Americans Who Have Suffered As A Consequence Of Past Agreements Have An Effective Social Safety Net, Adjustment Assistance, Opportunities For Retraining And New Job Creation That Enables All Americans To Thrive.

The Notion That -- Which Some People Are Trying To Suggest, That By Asking For The Identity Of An American Person, That Is The Same As Leaking It, Is Completely False. There's No Equivalence Between So-called Unmasking And Leaking.

President Obama Is Perhaps The Smartest Person I've Ever Worked With.