You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

I'm an internationalist. I'd like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.

There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

Bush-McCain stategy in Iraq is policy to stay, not to win.

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

Just the fact that we can't pass budgets in our Congress, just the fact that we are gridlocked in our own democracy, the fact that everybody who travels can see that we're not investing in our airports, in our rail, in our infrastructure and so forth, people are noticing a United States that is not getting the job done in some ways.

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