Let me just say you could end this violence within a very short period of time, have a complete ceasefire - which Iran could control, which Russia could control, which Syria could control, and which we and our coalition friends could control - if one man would merely make it known to the world that he doesn't have to be part of the long-term future; he'll help manage Syria out of this mess and then go off into the sunset, as most people do after a period of public life. If he were to do that, then you could stop the violence and quickly move to management.

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.

I'm motivated by my passion for our basic values, protecting our interests, and for protecting the future.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

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

I know something about aircraft carriers for real.