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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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