I would immediately rejoin the Paris Accords and reassert U.S. leadership in the critical process of global diplomacy.

Our country desperately needs a president with a depth of global experience and an understanding of all the elements of our nation's power, from our economy and our diplomacy to the power of our ideals and our military, including its limitations.

In the military, we just don't leave fights.

It's like I learned in the military: the officers always ate last. When you're responsible for people, that's how it should be.

Our actions to overthrow secular dictators in Iraq and Libya, and attempts now to do the same in Syria, have resulted in tremendous loss of life, failed nations, and even worse humanitarian crises while strengthening the very terrorist organizations that have declared war on America.

The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in one region.

Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

My memories of Vatican II center on white parishioners turning away from me when I went to shake their hands at Mass during the sign of peace.