The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Americans and who has become an operational leader of al-Qaida in a foreign land - is among the gravest that government leaders can face.

I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis.

The American people can be - and deserve to be - assured that actions taken in their defense are consistent with their values and their laws.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we have not engaged in.

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.