I’m a United States senator. I’m not an Israeli senator.

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.

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

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.

And this - this board was - was impanelled in 1951. And it's gone through ups and downs in how the secretaries have used it. But I have put a premium on that advisory board.

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?