I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'

The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says "thank you" to its most exceptional men and women.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

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.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.