I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation of church and state in the United States of America.

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.