We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track.

Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in.