“Look, the, the - this country has not lived within its means for a very long time, and, and the truth is we're going to have to take our medicine.”

“As many people have chronicled, the decision to fight in Vietnam was a years-long accretion of step-by-step choices, each of which could be rationalized at the time. Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a 'war of choice' whose costs we are still paying.”