It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship.

What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons.

We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.

Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences.