Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years.

I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.

My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.

No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War.

Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law.