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

I have a plan to protect the environment so that we leave this place in better shape to our children than we were handed it by our parents.

Three-quarters of [Bashar Assad] country is displaced. It's in Jordan, it's in Lebanon, it's in Turkey, and in the desert. The threat is that those people in the desert and others could become the next acolytes of ISIL if we don't find a way to join together to go after ISIL.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

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.

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

As the saying goes, I have big heels to fill.