And there’s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That’s something that we intend to fix this.

I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do

I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them.

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.