It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.

I tremendously admire, and I think we all should, the great work done by our commander in chief, our president George Bush...

When you use force, people get hurt, and when you kill people, their relatives don't like it. And usually war has some unanticipated consequences so it's something you shouldn't launch into, on the expectation that this is going to rally the nation. This is not like 'Friday Night Lights'.

We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.

I think you have to repudiate torture and I think you have to end what's going on at Guantanamo and you have to live up to American values. Basically you restore - what the American dream brought to the world stage was respect for the individual and the idea that people aren't pawns that rulers can push around but they have rights.

You need people with the courage to stand up and voice their opposition without being labeled unpatriotic.

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work