Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

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

There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.

The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.

[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.

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

We are being Americans when we hold our government to account. We are being false to our troops when we send them to a needless war, betraying their trust when we shortchange them on protective equipment, and cheating them when we silently cut their benefits.