No one individual vote, no one individual quote or no one individual statement defines me, my beliefs, or my record.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think that's a responsible thing to do.

We live in a world of absolute immediacy. It is an interconnected, combustible world, where technology and many other actions have given nonstate actors a reach, into countries and societies, for both good and evil, that we have never seen before. So it isn't a matter of just state versus state challenges or conflict. The bigger problem is nonstate actors.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.