I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.

If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here.

We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character.

We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is.