I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.