"This was one of the most astonishing speeches I've heard him give. He talks about patriotic education. I thought I was listening to mouse a tongue, running communist China."
"By his own admission, by lying to the American people, we now know that Donald Trump surely has the blood of tens of thousands of Americans on his hands."
"This president has lied. He has failed to prepare, and he's sought to divide us, and make us far less capable of countering this threat collectively."
"I believe he's not willing to confront Russia."
"How can you make a decision, Jim, let's think about this. First of all, it's not important, then it's fake news, then it doesn't merit as attention but all of a sudden, he knows enough to know it does..."
"This President is derelict in his duty as commander in chief to brush off information that is critical to the life and death of our service members, and do so just because he doesn't want to hear bad ..."
"the most important thing in my mind and for this country is for Joe Biden to be the next president of the United States and for the Democrats to control the Senate as well as the House."
"I have faith in our uniformed military. I have faith in the American defense establishment's readiness and desire to adhere to the norms and the laws of war."
"I think we need to be prepared for that possibility. And as I say, it's no certainty, but what's happened in the last several days and even frankly in the last several months, has led us on a course o..."
"It's hard to see how diplomacy can be retrieved at this point."
"The killing of Soleimani will require from the Iranian perspective a clear and definitive retaliation. And that retaliation could take any number of forms."