Bill Clinton: “I respect General Joe Ralston's decision to remove his name from consideration as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”

I hope that people will still believe in our democratic system enough to stick with it and keep pushing to make it work.

The American people don't pay you to have personal feelings. They pay you to deliver for them.

And I think we are facing challenges today without precedent in our history.

Damn it, what we have in common matters more. We cannot throw the legacy of this country away.