Peace Comes Through Dealing With People. Peace

If We Have To Continue To Live Under Sequestration, It Will Have A Maximum Impact On Our Ability To Fulfill The President's Strategic Guidance. We Can't Do It All. It's As Simple As That, With The Limitations Of The Budget As Severe As They Are. These Deep, Abrupt Cuts Have Forced Us To Make Decisions That Are Not In The Interest Of America.

I Think This Is The Biggest Lesson A President Or Any Of Us Who Has Responsibility To Govern Have To Learn: There Are Always Consequences To Actions That You Take. There Are Consequences To Inaction.

Foreign Policy Will Require A Strategic Agility That, Whenever Possible, Gets Ahead Of Problems, Strengthens U.s. Security And Alliances, And Promotes American Interests And Credibility.

I Would Not Trade America's Position In The World - Our Ledger, Our Debts And Assets - For Any Country In The World. There Isn't A Country In The World Even Close To America.

And I Want Every One Of You, Every One Of Us, 100 Senators To Look In That Camera, And You Tell Your People Back Home What You Think. Don't Hide Anymore; None Of Us. That Is The Essence Of Our Responsibility. And If We're Not Willing To Do It, We're Not Worthy To Be Seated Right Here. We Fail Our Country. If We Don't Debate This, If We Don't Debate This, We Are Not Worthy Of Our Country. We Fail Our Country.