You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.

I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

We as a country have to do some soul-searching.

Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us to work to perfect our union at home while standing as a beacon of hope to the world. Today, that principle is embodied in agreements Americans helped forge - the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, and treaties against torture and genocide - and it unites us with people from every country and culture.