The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

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

We need a common enemy to unite us.

We [USA] need to deal with our problems here at home if we're going to be strong enough to lead abroad.

There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that the United States was helping to provide security for Chairman Karzai. And it shows that the United States is committed to that regime.

I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill - not because we're perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.

We have to recognize that the reason that the global order that we've enjoyed and almost take for granted over the last several years exists is that after World War II, the United States and its allies tried to build an antidote to what they had seen between World War I and World War II. There, they'd seen protectionism, beggar-thy-neighbor trading policies, so they said, we'll build an open international economy. And they did that.