Nobody's interests are served by what's happening in Syria today. It's a catastrophe. It's the worst human catastrophe since World War II. And, as I said just now, it represents a failure of the entire international community to come to grips with solving it.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.

We have to create a process which has legitimacy for the people of Syria. And we have to have a process where the Russians and the Iranians and the neighbors - all of them, Saudis, Turks, Qataris, a very complicated brew - that you have to bring them together and they can find agreement. That's the fundamental premise of the Geneva Communique that you will have, by mutual consent, a process of transition.

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

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

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].