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In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational.

Going to war is a serious matter. And it should be done very carefully and deliberately with clear national interests at stake before the United States or our Commander-in-Chief acts.

Given that the president has not yet demonstrated why military action is in our best interest, given that the administration will not be constrained to keep boots off the ground, and given that there is no clear end-game, I am against the president's resolution to go to war in Syria.

War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.

You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.

I don't think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.

You cannot be politically correct in a war.