When I was in Vietnam I learned a lot about the promises that soldiers make to each other. The Marines have a promise to never leave behind their dead. In this country, as citizen soldiers, we need to make the commitment to each other that we will never leave our veterans behind.

We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

We still have a lot of work to do to protect our own democracy.

I still believe Americas destiny is to become a living testament to what free human beings can accomplish by acting in unity.

We have staring us in the face here an enormous opportunity to actually find a way forward to have peace and stability in Syria, to reconstitute it. It'll take years to do that. This will not be an easy fight even with concerted coordination with respect to ISIL. But it is far more doable with that kind of approach than otherwise.

I think that our own crisis of democracy is in its own way affecting our ability to leverage in the same way that we used to in the world.