Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

[Bashar] Assad himself has said on several occasions recently that if the people of Syria don't believe I should be there in the future, then I would step - I would leave. He has said it. He has, on occasion, hinted that he wants a political settlement of one kind or another. I think it's up to his supporters, his strongest supporters, to make it clear to him that if you're going to save Syria, Assad has made a set of choices - barrel bombing children, gassing his people, torturing his people, engaging in starvation as a tactic of war.

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

Think about this: terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-all challenges that know no borders-the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

We do not need more division. We certainly do not need something as complex and emotional as Vietnam reduced to simple campaign rhetoric.