You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

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

We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current.

I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers on more often, we're better leaders and we know more of what is going on and therefore we can lead more effectively.

If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.