The Bush administration must understand that each American has a right to question our policies in Iraq and elsewhere, and should not be demonized or condemned for disagreeing with them. Suggesting that to challenge and criticize policy is undermining and hurting our troops is not democratic, nor what this country has stood for over 200 years.

Palestinians caged up like animals.

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

There's always a balance, I think, any administration has to find in not just the military but in any agency of government.

I'm a supporter of Israel, always have been.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.