Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

We do not need to divide America over who served and how. I have personally always believed that many served in many different ways.

Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.

Great challenges confront our great nation. We seek to meet them by rising to the task, not by defining our country down.

Remember the hours after Sept. 11 when we came together as one...It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.

Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.

You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.