None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.

There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life.

We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character.

All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by.

Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united.