The United States is still seen as the leader at the world that wants to be free.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.

Leaders have followers. The primary role of a leader is to convey to those followers a sense of purpose, vision, and mission.

So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win.

My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.

We are not shrinking from talking to Saudis or anyone else in the region, but it is up to each nation in the region to decide on its own how it will proceed and at what pace. There are other nations in the region that had similar policies to Saudi Arabia that are starting to make changes, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Morocco. And so it takes time but when you see the need for such changes, then changes tend to follow.