By promoting liberty abroad, we will build a safer world. By encouraging liberty at home, we will build a more hopeful America.
No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.
It's your money. You paid for it.
For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times.
Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.
And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it.