Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

It's a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a 'socialist' taking over the country. Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system? That's kind of absurd.

We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more.

It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.

Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.