By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.

I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love.

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

We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.