[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.

Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind.

This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.