If you can resolve this transition of [Bashar] Assad, that is absolutely possible, but you have to have a clarity for everybody about the way forward.

Glossed over the disastrous war and its multibillion-dollar price tag and implied again that our presence in Iraq is somehow improving the situation in that chaotic and turbulent country. The Congress must stand up against Bush's plan to escalate the war.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

The Russians need to understand that you cannot have peace [in Syria] unless you resolve the question of Sunni buy-in.

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

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.