As I have said for two years now, when Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora, it was wrong to outsource the job of capturing them to Afghan warlords who a week earlier were fighting against us.

If the tea party folks would go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet's being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices that we have. That's something worth getting angry about.

We need to talk to all the players in the Middle East, not because we agree with them, but because they play a role.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

America is the most powerful economy in the world. We're an $18-trillion-dollar economy.

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.

Capturing Saddam Hussein and ensuring that this brutal dictator will never return to power is an important step toward stabilizing Iraq for the Iraqis. Let's also be clear: Our problems in Iraq have not been caused by one man, and this is a moment when the administration can and must launch a major effort to gain international support and win the peace.