Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam.

(The) chain of command has failed over the years, obviously, for a lot of reasons.

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

Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.

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.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.