Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections.

I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I’m asking you to believe in yours.

Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.

Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.