Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job.

The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it.

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we’ve got to have a clear objective...

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.