Democrats proposing success in Iraq by political solution.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

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

Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman.

Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.