I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.

I want to act in America's interest and stop making shallow, sweeping claims about countries we don't fully understand and hope everything will be fine in the end. I saw that happen and it didn't work.

Everybody knows that only creeps put cameras in the bathroom.

So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.

Early withdrawal from Iraq would result in unarguably, defeat and humiliation for the United States. There's no question. We would be defeated by definition. We would be humiliated in that defeat. I don't think there's any other way to argue it. Whether it's a good thing or a bad thing is a separate question.