What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics.

[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity.

We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive.

We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.