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

Every life is worthy and every life is capable of greatness. We have an obligation to make sure that opportunity for greatness is there.

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union. We have far more areas of cooperation with Russia than we have areas of conflict.

I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in this reaction to globalization is that the elites are not respectful of the values of those who are ordinary citizens, so we seem to be dividing ourselves into ever-smaller identity groups, each with its own narrative, each with its own grievance, and that's a problem.

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

Diplomacy, if properly practiced, is not just talking for the sake of talking.