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

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'.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

I want to make one thing clear: I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-affirmative action, I'm pro- environment, pro-health care, and pro-labor. And if that ain't a Democrat, then I must be at the wrong meeting.

Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

War creates its own intensity of hatred... You don't want to use force except as an absolute last resort.

There are only two kinds of plans. Plans that might work and plans that won't work... you have to take a plan that might work and make it work.