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

The world has to save Syria. I mean, this has dramatic implications for the entire region, globally.

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.

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.

Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.