I do share Senator Risch's frustration, and I do think that we are on a short fuse.
The road ahead will not be easy, and the problems before us posed by Iran's behavior are urgent.
A government that does not respect the rights of its own people will find it increasingly difficult to win the respect that it professes to ...
Sanctions and pressure are not an end in themselves. They are a complement, not a substitute, for the diplomatic solution.
Given Iran's dangerous progress, some will argue that engagement has been wasted.
These steps to increase pressure are necessary, not because we want to target Iran, but because Iran itself has decided to continue to defy ...
I have enormous respect for General McChrystal, I think he's a terrific soldier, and this is a critical moment in Afghanistan.
When I was recently in Syria, President Assad talked to me about the possibilities for that kind of an opening.
The top priority is our mission in Afghanistan and our ability to proceed forward, competently.
I think that this is very, very frustrating to all of us.
A nuclear-armed Iran would pose an intolerable threat to our ally, Israel, risk igniting an arms race.
Only by combining both pressure and diplomacy into a comprehensive and coordinated strategy will we have a chance at altering Iran's behavio...
We have troops on the front lines, we have a major mission that we're in the middle of.
The Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have found that capping carbon emissions would c...
The president has a right to fire him for that. It is a firing offense. The question is, who can prosecute this war well?
I think it reinforces in the region, I think, the concerns of, you know, our partners not only in gulf but elsewhere.
I think the president has every reason to fire him if he wants. But, on the other side, we're on the eve of the Kandahar offensive.
The one person he has been getting along well with is President Karzai. And they have formed a very strong partnership.
