The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea.

I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it.

I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.

I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.