I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

I think indeed our response on counterinsurgency needs to be finely tuned to the needs of Afghanistan. This is not Iraq. We don't have a Sons of Iraq here. We don't have the same divisions here that we had between Sunni and Shia.

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

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

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

Chick-fil-A values are not Chicago values.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?