[Opponents had dubbed her] Mean Jean ... their commander in chief.

He's going to run on the idea that he's the commander-in-chief, that it's about his patriotism, that he kept us safe after 9/11, ... The time has passed in America when this party can be the party of compassion and let the executive branch run foreign policy.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief, ... I don't need on-the-job training.

The president is, after all, the commander in chief - not only in terms of international crises, but in terms of catastrophes here at home.

He has not done so, and that, I agree, is a terrible derogation of his responsibilities as commander in chief,

Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.