"I think people ought to take a position on the science."
"Since the Taliban fell in Afghanistan, life expectancy in Afghanistan has improved from 45 years to 62 years."
"We shouldn't stay unwanted. We shouldn't stay if we can't work out a BSA."
"The American role in improving the life of Afghans has truly been massive, and the more we do that the more we inoculate against extremism."
"I wish in Iraq we had worked out an acceptable BSA with the United States and the United States had stayed."
"We want the United States to stay and we want to work out an acceptable BSA."
"Now, I know that that creates some real anxiety in the Taliban, and they have just recently done very public calls for violence to disrupt the elections."
"The combat mission in Afghanistan is concluding at the end of 2014."
"We are ending the longest prolonged period of war in our Nation's history."
"If the war is ending at the end of our 2014 activities in Afghanistan, then should the authorization expire?"
"I think the training that we do with other nations might be one of the best investments we make."