Every election is different, every context is different. I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president Bill Clinton was important.

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.

The Afghan - obviously the parties will decide which course of action. The most important there, get a government that is seen as legitimate to the people and has the credibility to be a partner in the effort to secure Afghanistan so it's not a haven for al Qaeda or other type of terrorists or international terrorist organizations.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.