I think all of us have really got to redouble our efforts, first of all, to pay attention to the K-12 crisis. The sad fact is that I can look at your zip code and tell whether you're going to get a good education. That's not fair. And secondly, I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

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

It's important to Russia to be able to attract capital and to attract technology to develop their oil fields, their oil and gas fields, many of which suffer from lack of access to the very best technologies. And it's also important, and this has been the US government's view to have diversification of supply, diversification of supply roots and, of course, diversification in terms of alternative energy.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.