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We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.

I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.

My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.

America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States.

I support development and deployment of a limited national missile defense. Few if any of our duties surpass our obligation to provide for the common defense of our nation.

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.