Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

I commanded a naval gunboat patrolling the Mekong Delta. Then when I came home after two tours of duty, I decided that the same sense of service demanded something more of me.

It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

I think it was the right decision to disarm Saddam Hussein. And when the president made the decision, I supported him, and I support the fact that we did disarm him.

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.