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.

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

There is a much cheaper way, less complicated way to bring Iraq and Saddam Hussein to its knees: it is simply to send the Bush economic team over there and let them run the country.

America must always be the world's paramount military power. But we can magnify our power through alliances.

I'm going to be a president who believes in science.

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.