Richard N. Haass: “He associated himself with a historical mistake in Iraq, and I think that's, more than anything else, going to color his…”

This is not foreign policy. These are acts of aggression against individuals.

I have said, it is a flawed agreement. But the issue before the Congress is not whether the agreement is good or bad.

The future is going to be determined on the streets of Syria's cities, not in a speech given by the President of the United States in the State Department.

I think it would be criminal as a society--or negligent, I will use a better word--for us not to do certain sorts of things to put us on a safer trajectory.