We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope.

When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent.