He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

There's no straight line to progress.

I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol.

One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.

If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.