Chuck Hagel: “The highly cost effective National Guard and Reserve have served the Nation well both in peacetime and war.”

The President has said, many times, still strongly believes, that Assad has lost the legitimacy to govern his own people.

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.

When you have a national leader, our national world leader, who has left dignity behind, decency behind, honesty, integrity behind them, that's where you start.

There's a perception that it is the military's responsibility to fix the problem. Problems are not fixed by militaries.