I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.

I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.

Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger

There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else.