The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views.

If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.