Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.

The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.

This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.

I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

We must prepare for everything.