Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

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.

The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy. It won't work. We have to be the party that can stand toe to toe with George W. Bush on national security, as well as the party of compassion.

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

Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

Everybody in the military has a reputation, and usually it doesn't come out to the public.