When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office.

I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton].

I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.

She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

It's also wonderful to be back with my great friend and ally, Chancellor [Angela] Merkel. As I reflect back over the last eight years, I could not ask for a steadier or more reliable partner on the world stage, often through some very challenging times.