The American People... Want Change. They Want

I Do Not Believe That A Counterterrorism Strategy All By Itself, Without A Sufficient Level Of Counterinsurgency, Will Work.

At Some Point, Deliberation Begins To Look More Like Indecisiveness Which Then Becomes A Way Of Emboldening Our Enemies And Allies And Causing Our Allies To Question Our Resolve. So We Shouldn't Let One Component Of This Determine Our National Security Here Which Depends On Providing An Afghanistan Which Denies A Safe Haven To Terrorists As Well As Stabilizing Pakistan. Those Are Our Two National Security Interests At Stake In Afghanistan.

Counting The Numbers Of Troops Is Not Going To Define Our Success Here.there Is No Military Success, Ultimately, To Afghanistan. The Afghans Themselves Are Going To Define What Happens Here. And We Have To Convince Ourselves That We Have A Strategy In Place That Empowers Them To Do That And That Is Realistic In What Our Expectations Are From Them And On What Schedule.

I Saw The President Make The Tough Calls In The Situation Room - And Today, Our Troops In Iraq Have Finally Come Home So America Can Do Some Nation Building Here At Home. That Was The Change That We Believed In. That Was The Change We Fought For. That Was The Change President Obama Delivered.

I Would Like To Run For The Mayor Of The City Of Chicago. That Has Always Been An Aspiration Of Mine Even When I Was In The House Of Representatives.