Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else.

We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests.

One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today.