I think we share that goal with Turkey, but I have not had in my conversations with the Turks the requirement that we take concerted action against Bashar al-Assad as the precondition necessarily for the Turks to have any greater role in…

We want to fight ISIL. We want to give the President the wherewithal to degrade and deter them.

I am looking beyond, so if we think an accommodation to fight ISIL is good, the aftermath of that in Iraq, in Syria, in Yemen, and elsewhere, in my view, is not so good.

Although this hearing is not focused on the administration's proposed authorization for the use of military force against ISIL, it is by nature an opportunity to probe the dynamics of our current anti-ISIL strategy that will inform our…

We cannot provide a blank check to this and a future President because everything that is envisioned goes beyond this President.

I hope that we will help the Ukrainians be able to defend themselves.

The fact is that world history has taught us that no matter what the threat or challenge, dealing from a position of weakness is always a greater provocation than dealing from a position of strength.

Well, I am certainly not an advocate of what the Bush administration did.

I stand second to no one in my desire to see a negotiated solution that rolls back and dismantles Iran's illicit nuclear program.

It is pretty outrageous. And it is a country--Cyprus--that is part of the European Union.

At some point, you have to give the Ukrainians the wherewithal to defend themselves.

the price has not changed his behavior.