Each and every child in this country is valuable because they are our future as a society. We cannot afford to lose a single child to ill-health, under-education, abuse, addiction, jail, or gun violence. America's highest goal should be for every child to grow up to be a successful young adult -- healthy, educated, free, secure, and a good citizen.

I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play along that you could actually achieve peace, because there are 65 million Sunni in between Baghdad and the border of Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, who will never, ever again accept Assad as a member - as a legitimate leader.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.

I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.