Our purpose now is to reclaim democracy itself. We are here to affirm that when Americans stand up and speak their minds and say America can do better, that is not a challenge to patriotism; it is the heart and soul of patriotism.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

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.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

We are not interested in a proxy war. Our objective is to change Russia's behavior.

Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.