I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

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.

If you don't believe ... Saddam Hussein is a threat with nuclear weapons, then you shouldn't vote for me.

American can do better, and help is on the way.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.