We achieved a deal with the Russians that didn't wind up in two days of strikes that would have sent a, quote, "message," but would not have removed the weapons. We struck a deal to get all of the declared weapons out of Syria. Never before in a conflict has that ever happened, that during the conflict weapons of mass destruction are taken out of the zone of conflict. And thank God we did that, because if we hadn't done that, today ISIL would have those chemical weapons in large parts of the country.

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such preeminence. But we are not Romans; we do not seek an empire. We are Americans, trustees of a vision and a heritage that commit us to the values of democracy and the universal cause of human rights.

Gender based violence anywhere is a threat to peace and security everywhere.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things.

War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.