It's hard for any man to take something thrown at his face and not to retaliate.
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
… resorting to retaliation means that your deterrence policy has failed.
I believe we should use any and all means necessary to take out people who pose a threat to us and our friends around the world.
I don't think that leaking an American diplomat's private information, pictures, names of their children, I don't think that is a formal protest, that is what a thuggish regime would do.
When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.
We should not have to experience the fear of intimidation or retaliation in the United States.
