12/17/2008
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"It's heartbreaking. It's heartbreaking and I think that anybody who sees it knows that there's something fundamentally unjust about that."
"President Obama has decided to send a U.S. Ambassador back to Syria."
"If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, they must respect those rights and heed the will of its own people. They must govern through consent not coercion."
"This tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work anymore in Iran."