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

To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.

Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.

Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.

There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world.

I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.