African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

If Iran cheats, the world will know it.

That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.

I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together.