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.

So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real.

I promise just to serve two terms. Republicans do it differently. They just have the son repeat the father's whole first term.

We cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

It's hard to say that something is legitimate when a whole portion of the country can't vote and doesn't vote.

What remains unchanged is the principle, which is that we do not launch wars without overwelming reasons, and overwhelming alliances, and without overwhelming force.