I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term.

Let me tell your something. I'm from Chicago. I don't break.

My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.

I do believe that Chancellor Merkel and Germany are a lynchpin in protecting the basic tenets of a liberal, market-based democratic order that has created unprecedented prosperity and security for Europe, but also for the world.

We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.