If the threat is jihadism - and it is - and the threat is the destruction of Syria so that all of these refugees are swamping into Europe and changing the whole character and politics of Europe, this is the time to unite to find a way out.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.

It's likely that people will say we're all interested in destroying - ISIL is a threat to everybody. There isn't one country in the region that doesn't despise what ISIL stands for and is doing and that doesn't want to eliminate them.

The Ukrainian people should not be coerced. Make no mistake: the US stands together with the Ukrainians aspiring for democracy.

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.