Strong leadership demands more than the willingness to use force. It means directing the use of the right tools at the right time for the right purpose and the right cause.

I think the question of abortion is one that should be left for the states to decide.

President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care, and concern, and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says "thank you" to its most exceptional men and women.

Israel gets more than half of all the military purchasing assistance that America gives to all the nations in the world.

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.

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.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.