The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

Differences can be a strength.

[My favorite dish to cook] is fried chicken, and by the way I'm good at it, too. I make really good fried chicken.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.