I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.

I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.

Certainly I've appreciated Angela Merkel as a partner.

I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States.

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.

If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program.

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.