Civic participation over a lifetime, working in neighborhoods and communities and service of all kinds - military and civilian, full-time and part-time, national and international - will strengthen America's civic purpose.

No, I don't think it is, at least not any time soon given the tenor of politics in America and the courts in America.

The time we're going to pop a cork will be the day that the president of the United States signs this bill and we're all together in the Rose Garden at the time of his signature -- that's when we will celebrate and not before,

We need to make sure that we fix it this time, because what if that had been an act of terrorism? ... This clearly exposes us to vulnerabilities if there was an act of terror. So if there's any upside to this terrible tragedy, maybe it'll motivate us to fix the problem.

I don't know what information the president had at the time and what he didn't have, ... So, I think all of that's going to be reviewed, and I'm sure that will be part of this commission.

At the same time I recognize that taking away veterans' benefits on account of post-military service behavior is probably more complicated than it seems,