We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet.

Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.

The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again.

He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense.

It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself.

In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid consistently the kinds of civilian casualties that can end up actually hurting us in the war against radicalization.