Those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be President.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

The big hang-up was George Bush wanted to get life lines, you know, so he could call somebody.

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

We have staring us in the face here an enormous opportunity to actually find a way forward to have peace and stability in Syria, to reconstitute it. It'll take years to do that. This will not be an easy fight even with concerted coordination with respect to ISIL. But it is far more doable with that kind of approach than otherwise.

What we Americans need to do is respect that incredible blessing that we have as a nation and make sure that we are leading in the best ways possible.