My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.

I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.

This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.

[Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders.

I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security.

The more we can encourage entrepreneurship, particularly for young people, the more they have hope. That requires some reforms in these [African] governments: rooting out corruption, increased transparency and how government operates, making sure that regulations are not designed just to advantage elites, but are allowing people who have a good idea to get out there and get things done.

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.