I think the United States is still the indispensable force for positive change and for rule of law and for order and structure.

I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields that turn to desert...

What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.

No one is going to question my commitment to the defence of our nation. I don't know what it is these Republicans, who didn't serve in any war, have against those of us who are Democrats who did.

It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.