Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight.

I reiterated our hope that negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit from the E.U. will be conducted in a smooth and orderly and transparent fashion and preserve as closely as possible the economic and political and security relationships between the U.K. and E.U.

On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

I do think that I am generally optimistic.

Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations.

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.