The only path forward is a comprehensive deal that addresses the full range of its threats. Until then, our campaign of diplomatic isolation and maximum economic pressure will continue.

Mike Pompeo

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My plan is to keep doing more of the same, so while for six months I was near-perfect in terms of how I ate — now I'm going to be mostly perfect.

I read a great deal on my own, and I had my theories about eating less and exercising more, so that's what I did.

The answer is this is really very straightforward, i wanted to feel better. I wanted to be able to be more active.

The other comment I'd like to make here.

I read a lot about this [topic].

You know, people around the edges would always say things, right? They would try to be polite. But nobody really had to say that much. You just know, on your own, that when your shirt collar has gotten one inch bigger — well, you know.

I definitely started eating some things I hadn't eaten for a long time.

So, no — this wasn't about anything other than trying to get to ahealthier place where I'd have a reasonable chance to have less health risk and live longer.

It's proven fairly difficult these last few weeks.

The truth is, I’m really getting ready for 2044 and hoping I’ll be around in 2054, my son’s getting married in July, and I wanted to be healthier and be around for what I hope the Lord will bless us with as grandkids before too terribly long.

I tried to get down there five, six times a week and stay at it for a half-hour or so, and that was nothing scientific. There was no trainer, there was no dietician. It was just me.

I started exercising, not every day, but nearly every day, and eating right and the weight just started to come off.

I think the world is very worried, i think they see the first nine months, and they are very concerned that America is leaving the international stage.

At its very core, what the Biden administration fails to understand is there is a harsh reality out there, that there is evil and there is good, and if you withdraw from Afghanistan without considering the ramifications and dealing with them and making sure the conditions are right, America will be diminished.

But when the Taliban pushed us, we crushed them, when you set a date certain, and they push on you and you withdraw, inch by inch, yard by yard, this didn't just happen in 11 days-- that's the myth the Biden administration tells. This wasn't 11 days, this was weeks and weeks and weeks of the Taliban advancing on provincial capitals all across the country.

I pray that they restore American credibility, i think they have an opportunity to do that.

And once that's done, once you set the date certain, then the bad guys know that they can push you--and that's what they did.

Power. They understood American power.

The arrangement was only as good as your willingness to enforce it, and to watch them, and to call them on it, and to demand, and when they don't comply, to impose real costs on them.

There is no reason to think that I will do anything but stay in that effort, to promote conservative ideas for the next 20 or 30 years.