My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.

We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time.

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.