I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.

People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What is this fiction that he is somehow the only person who can save Syria? There's - with Assad there, there is no Syria. So that's what the Iranians and the Russians need to really begin to focus in on.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world, when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.