"Regime change is rarely, if ever, successful."
"We have to learn some lessons, and I do not think we adequately learn the lessons."
"One of the lessons we might learn... is that regime change does not work."
"We have to learn lessons sometime. I mean, we went into Libya. We went into Iraq. We destabilized Iraq."
"I would argue that instead of always choosing the Government, maybe we should not reward the bad ones."
"Let us do not support the bad ones, but let us not presume enough that if we topple them that in the vacuum Thomas Jefferson is going to arise, because it never seems to happen."
"I do not think you have completely gotten the idea that regime change has been a terrible disaster that has created vacuums, chaos, and actually more terrorism throughout the region."
"Every president for the last 50 years have--in fact, they all probably believe this. They believe they have absolute power."
"Many on the left are horrified at being associated with the neocon foreign policy."
"the end results of responsibility to protect are, in reality, little different than the interventionist policies of John Bolton and Bill Kristol."
"the policies you have advocated and Joe Biden has advocated and, frankly, John Bolton has advocated this idea of regime change has been a disaster for the Middle East."