And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for.

We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves.

As you travel through the Middle East what keeps on striking home to me is how similar everyone is, and yet the degree to which we can find differences to fight wars over. It requires a great deal of empathy, I think, between various sides to overcome this history and live in peace.

I don't wanna preempt an announcement next week. And there's a lot of technical aspects to it. And if I - say - that we're doing one thing. then the markets might interpret it differently from what it ends up being.

In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way.