And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

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

I should say the leadership's proposal in the Senate and the House are very unpopular. And when people realize it will raise taxes, raise their insurance premiums cost and explode the deficit, they think twice about it.

We need to deal with the problem of al Qaeda, make sure that they can't have a sanctuary in Afghanistan and guarantee that we have regional stabilization and particularly focused on Pakistan.

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

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.