War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct.

Thanks to General Petraeus, our leadership and the sacrifice of brave young Americans. To deny that their sacrifice didn't make possible the success of the surge in Iraq, I think does a great disservice...the progress has been immense.

We need more competitive races, ... We need the voice of moderation.

Vladimir Putin is a war criminal.

Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.

The US does not involve itself in what is happening in the world's largest democracy, nor does it intend to do so.