Quotes from Robert C. O'Brien

If you vote early, great. If you vote on Election Day, great. If you vote absentee, great. But get out and vote.

We're going to do everything we can to harden our systems, to make sure that our elections are free and fair and the will of the American people is implemented.

Well, free elections are the foundation of our democracy.

Every American should understand that their vote is secret.

The National Security Council assists the president by ensuring that he receives the best views and options from the various departments and agencies on any given issue. The ultimate policies are, as they should be, then decided upon by the president - not by the NSC staff or the national security adviser.

My job as the national security adviser is to distill and present to the president the views and options that come from the various departments and agencies.

The Trump administration has taken the fight to those espousing hateful anti-Semitic views.

President Trump reversed the previous administration's disastrous policy of appeasing Cuba and has implemented a vigorous sanctions regime against Nicaragua. Our hope is that the people of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua will one day live in democracies like the rest of their neighbors.

Both Russia and the United States have had their homelands attacked by violent extremists.

Nowhere outside of Southeast Asia is China's rise as a global power more visible than in Africa.