I said, 'This is a matter of life and death, and we've got to do our best to work together to keep our people safe.' And I've really tried to do that. I found him to be hard to help.
We need to find a way to respect each other, trust each other and work together to solve the long-term challenges America faces,
We're the leaders and we've got to lead. And you lead by example. And you lead by working with people that we haven't worked so well with together in the past,
I told him we needed to try to work better together and I would try to make that happen, ... And he seemed positive about it.
We have a big job of reconciling the people in Iraq. We need to pull together that international coalition that we should have gotten together a long time ago,
This is war. And we will do everything in our power together to make sure that terrorists never, ever again can create this mayhem, this chaos, this violence against our people and our country.