[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

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.

Unlike George Bush and his friends at the big oil companies, I'm going to work for a real energy policy for this country that decreases America's dependence on foreign oil and helps lower the costs to American families.

Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.

The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation.

I think, all in all, the Obama administration and what President Obama has focused on has lived up to our need to protect American interests, to live our values and assert our values, and to stand up for future generations.

What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.