I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.

I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.

Celebrating the holidays in the White House over these past eight years has been a true privilege. We've been able to welcome over half a million guests... our outstanding pastry chefs have baked 200,000 holiday cookies... and Barack [Obama] has treated the American people to countless dad jokes.

I think I'm probably more typical of the average American who doesn't have a connection to a military community.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.