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

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

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.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

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.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?