"I was amazed and moved by the families saying, please make sure that our son, daughter, husband, whatever, didn't die in vain."
"But the bottom line here is, and General Keane was right earlier when he said this is going to go on for a large part of this century."
"A lot of what you are now doing, in my respectful opinion, is simply not working to protect our security, and it is diminishing our credibility in areas of the world way outside of the Middle East."
"In my opinion, part of what you are talking about is the so-called metadata that the NSA goes after. That is one excellent way in which we can get to target."
"We should have supported them from the beginning."
"I look back first at Afghanistan during the 1990s when... that led right to the 9/11 attacks against us."
"Probably no one has done that as much or certainly not more than Joe Lieberman did during the time that he was in the Senate."
"There are no easy solutions to this threat. But there are smart, strong steps we can take."
"The zero option for Afghanistan is the worst option for the United States of America."
"In Libya, we can put in place, and should, a large-scale, well-resourced U.S.-led effort to build up the new Libyan Army."
"No system is perfect. But, I will tell you, the American Government has stopped a lot of terrorist plots against us because of these methods of surveillance."