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

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

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.

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.

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.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. Don't hide anymore; none of us. That is the essence of our responsibility. And if we're not willing to do it, we're not worthy to be seated right here. We fail our country. If we don't debate this, if we don't debate this, we are not worthy of our country. We fail our country.