America has not led but fled on the issue of global warming.

We have to create a process which has legitimacy for the people of Syria. And we have to have a process where the Russians and the Iranians and the neighbors - all of them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, a very complicated brew - that you have to bring them together and they can find agreement. That's the fundamental premise of the Geneva Communique that you will have, by mutual consent, a process of transition.

Values spoken without actions taken are merely slogans.

Those localized efforts take a long time and they don't deal with the larger issue of ISIL and the question of what you're going to do to really have a solution here. We have to save Syria.

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.