Administration Quote by Richard Engel

We had eight years of Barack Obama depleting our military, ignoring a lot of the threats around the world.

— Steve Scalise

Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and…

— Pete Hoekstra

The Obama-Clinton administration gambled with America's national security by embracing radical jihadists, and the world lost.

— Pete Hoekstra

The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire…

— Rick Atkinson

“So before and during the war, the Bush administration had to build up an image in people's minds of Iraq as a monstrous military…

— Noam Chomsky

I was in Saudi Arabia on 9/11 and was part of the initial leadership team to execute the initial combat operations in Afghanistan.

— Martha McSally

“Just as the West’s support for the Afghan jihad against the Soviets in the 1980s laid the ground for the rise of Islamist terrorism,…

— Edward Luce

Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large…

— Barack Obama

The 2003 invasion of Iraq by U.S. and coalition partners stands as one of the greatest blunders in American history. The Islamic State, also…

— Lawrence Wright

Faced with the collapse of Iraq into something like Lebanon - or worse, Somalia - the Bush administration opted for a new counterinsurgency strategy.…

— Noah Feldman

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

— Robert M. Gates