I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.

Where are they now that we, the men whom they sent off to war, have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops, and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They have left the real stuff of their reputation bleaching behind them in the sun in this country.

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

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.

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.