We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have to build coalitions, something that I did to take on the Iranian nuclear program, and what I will do as president to make sure that we defeat these terrorist networks.

It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.

I think we've got to understand the complexity of the world that we are facing and no place is more so than in the Middle East.

Is it important that you have a strong leadership for your party? I think it's critical.

If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights — and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.

I think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we're good.

We're working with our friends in the Middle East, many of which, as you know, are Muslim majority nations.