When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me.

If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.