This is eventually how Syria will be resolved - through a political settlement.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

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