I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

I personally didn't see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that. However, I did take part in free-fire zones, I did take part in harassment and interdiction fire, I did take part in search-and-destroy missions.

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

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

I figured out Karl Rove's political strategy -- make gas so expensive, no Democrats can afford to go to the polls.

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.

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.