When you ask people, do they believe that we ought to have trade, I think people understand it's important.

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in the first Gulf War.

When it comes to the cyberwarfare piece, we're going to have to deal with it.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

I don't make promises, by and large, that I can't keep.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.