Our troops are the best in the world. I have absolute confidence in the ability of the troops who are here, or additional troops, to do their part.

Because of the president’s leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

I mean,you will have an Afghan government. There are two roads here. One is obviously a run-off election or a negotiated settlement. But what's most important about that process is that there's a credibility and a legitimacy to the government at the end of that process. So which road they choose, that's up to them. It must have - be legitimate and credible in the eyes of the Afghan people.

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.