My role is to provide the President options about how we could employ military force.
I think we need to, as I said in my opening statement as forcefully as I can, what has brought us to this discussion at ...
We are all concerned about the readiness of our military, and I hear it in different places.
if Assad can gas his people with impunity, you will never get to Geneva, you will never have a negotiation
We are not talking about America going to war. President Obama is not asking for a declaration of war.
The President has made the determination that it is in our national interest to respond to Assad's use of chemical weapo...
The limited nature of these strikes seeks to mitigate the potential for a miscalculation and escalation, as well as mini...
the purpose of the strike is limited and targeted.
I voted to put in place a reasonable mechanism that would actually wind up with us solving our budget and deficit proble...
Look, do you want to play politics here or do you want to get a policy in place?
if the United States of America cannot stand up and make real what we have said with respect to the prohibition on the u...
the President didn't create this red line. This is a red line that a Republican or Democrat President would--or should e...
there will be no boots on the ground in this operation.
We are very, very concerned that with respect to our current efforts to deal with Iran...
It is important for us to think about this from his perspective.
Now, to those who doubt whether Assad's actions have to have consequences, remember that our inaction absolutely is guar...
the instability that will be bred by the unwillingness of the United States to stand up against this will have repercuss...
This strike is calculated to tell him don't use those weapons and to reduce his capacity to do so sufficiently.
