They've taken delivery of some of the components today and we're urging them to reconsider that decision.

Mike Pompeo

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We managed to do that, I think, in a significant way, for four years, we need to make sure we focus on the primary challenge to the United States of America over the next 50 years — which will turn out to be the Chinese Communist Party, inside the gates, impacting us here at home.

The most important differences are that we were fearless about protecting America everywhere in the world. We wanted religious freedom to be one of the things we worked on deeply, they’ve chosen to lead with climate change.

And when someone crossed that, when someone did something that risked an American life or put our economy at risk that we would n’t have jobs, or prosperity, we responded.

I ’m really worried. I ’m worried about a cascading set of calamities around the world.

I ’m confident the Ukrainian people will fight, but we could have Xi Jinping see a weakness. We could have Chairman Kim see weakness.

It is so far afield from the tradition of America and the work that we did for four years.

When we do that, other countries will want to be our friends.

When you put climate change at the top of your agenda, when the conversation is n’t about power, but about carbon footprint, the world thinks of you in a deeply different way.

I am rooting for the Biden administration to be successful — in spite of my critique and my enormous concerns about the policies that they’ve chosen, i want them to be successful.

I regret that he chose not to consider every American, we shouldn't whittle down the talent pool and choose people for reasons that are inconsistent with the American tradition. Brown Jackson, nominated to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on pending judicial nominations on Capitol Hill, April 28, 2021. ( Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images).

She sounds like, from all I can tell, that she's a decent human being, i pray that she will be a Supreme Court justice that will respect the Constitution, but I fear that she'll have a different view of that than me.

Donald Trump was a KGB agent for goodness sakes. Donald Trump knows how to use power. We should respect that.

In Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District, I can't think of a stronger candidate than Morgan Ortagus, morgan played a critical role in our administration's efforts to put America first and to restore American greatness to our foreign policy.

Everybody approaches these things in ways that are deeply personal, for me, it’s about thinking, ‘Where do I want to be a month from now, four months from now, six months from now?’ I think about the things I want to try to do [in life] and keep in mind why I'm doing this.

Make sure you do right the next day. You can't make up for the mistakes of yesterday. You can only take care of what’s in front of you.

We had respect for him and his power. He's a very talented statesman, he has lots of gifts. He was a KGB agent, for goodness' sakes. He knows how to use power, we should respect that.

When they had Russian cyber attacks and they shut down the Colonial Pipeline, we told them you can only attack certain sectors but 16 are off-limits. When we left Afghanistan the way we did. Those were the places where the administration had the chance to establish deterrence. Putin saw this, i think they don’t see President Biden as credible.

This is about making better choices every time, and sometimes you're in a place where there really aren't such good choices, right? For whatever reasons — you're out with people, or you're at a public event, and there's a certain expectation.

There's no doubt I'm burning fewer calories today than I was when I was able to get on the elliptical, so, yes, I knew there'd be chance that I would put some of the weight back on, and I probably have [in recent weeks]. But when I started this, I didn't have a target weight in mind. I just knew I needed to get healthier, and that's what I hope I can maintain — that mindset — for the rest of my life.

No, but I will say this: These health issues matter a lot, no matter what line of work one is in, i was traveling all over the world as Secretary of State, and it does matter that you have both the physical and mental capacity to take on the tasks that are in front of you.