“Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is t...” — Jack Keane Quote

“Russia, their number one client in the Middle East is Syria; that is their foothold in the Middle East. They want to have influence there.”

“I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.”

“I have lots of concerns at working with Russia going against ISIS until we have agreements in terms of what Russia's behavior is going to be.”

“My job is to make sure a client doesn't have any 'what if's - to make sure, when you look back, you don't say, 'What if I had done this? What if I had done that?'”

“The client is not always right.”

“From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud.”