Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well.

It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.

But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.

I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.

I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before.