An old American patriot described today’s situation very well. As America fought for its independence, Benjamin Franklin said, “we must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

I believe America's best days are ahead of us because I believe that the future belongs to freedom, not to fear.

If you want to be a Jewish state and you want to remain a democracy, you have to have a two-state solution.

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

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.

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

America has an ability to try to make some things happen that other countries don't necessarily have.